| has gloss | eng: White Plum Asanga, sometimes termed White Plum Sangha, is the lineage of the late Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi, using a synthesis of Soto and Rinzai and consisting of Maezumis Dharma heirs and many of their subsequent successors and students. A diverse organization spread across the United States, the White Plum Asanga "...includes teachers who represent the spectrum of styles to be found to American Zen—socially engaged Buddhism, family practice, Zen and the arts, secularized Zen, and progressive traditionalism." Conceived of informally in 1979 by Maezumi and Tetsugen Bernard Glassman, the White Plum Asanga was named after Maezumis father Baian Hakujun Daiosho and then later incorporated in 1995 following Maezumis death. Tetsugen Bernard Glassman was the White Plum Asangas first President and his successor was Dennis Genpo Merzel. Following Merzel's term, in May of 2007, Gerry Shishin Wick was elected President of White Plum. |
