Mary Farkas

Mary Farkas
Title	Director
Personal life
Born	1911 United States
Died	June 7, 1992 (aged 81) New York, New York
Website	www.firstzen.org
Religious life
Religion	Zen Buddhism
School	Rinzai
Senior posting
Teacher	Sokei-an
Based in	First Zen Institute of America

Mary Farkas (1911 – June 7, 1992) was the director of the First Zen Institute of America (FZIA), running the center's administrative functions for many years following the death of her teacher (Sokei-an) in 1945. Though she was not a teacher of Zen Buddhism in any traditional sense of the word, she did help to carry on the lineage of Sokei-an and also was editor of the FZIA's journal, Zen Notes, starting with Volume 1 in 1954. Additionally, she also edited books about Sokei-an, i.e. "The Zen Eye" and "Zen Pivots." Through her transcriptions of his talks, the institute was able to continue on the lineage without having a formal teacher (Sokei-an left no Dharma heir).

Bibliography

• Sasaki, Shigetsu; Farkas, Mary; Lopez, Robert (1998). Zen Pivots: Lectures on Buddhism and Zen. Weatherhill. ISBN 0-8348-0416-6. OCLC 38120661.
• Sasaki, Shigetsu; Farkas, Mary (1993). The Zen Eye: A Collection of Zen Talks by Sokei-an. Weatherhill. ISBN 0-8348-0272-4. OCLC 27266361.

See also

• Buddhism in the United States
• List of Rinzai Buddhists
• Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States

References

• "IN TRANSITION: MARY FARKAS (1911 - 1992)". Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. Fall 1992. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
• Skinner Keller, Rosemary; Rosemary Radford Ruether; Marie Cantlon (2006). The Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-34685-1. OCLC 61711172.
• Stirling, Isabel. Zen Pioneer: The Life & Works of Ruth Fuller Sasaki (2006) Shoemaker & Hoard. ISBN 978-1-59376-110-3