Ep 112 - An interview with Zen author and historian Rick McDaniel (Zen Podcast)

Rick McDaniel was raised in Indiana and moved to Canada in 1967, where he earned an MA and Ph. D. in the Literature of the Developing World. He has worked for many tears as a University Professor and he was the creator of the YMCA Peace Medallion and he also founded Cultures Boutique, the first fair trade store in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Rick became interested in Zen practice in 1971 and eventually studied with Albert Low of the Montreal Zen Center. He is the author of eight books on the subject. His most recent, Further Zen Conversations, was released by the Sumeru Press in 2023. At the request of Albert Low, Rick started the Fredericton Zen Sitting Group which meets weekly in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Rick is perhaps best known to Zen practitioners as a frequently profiler of North American Zen Teachers which can be found on the rbmcdaniel.ca website

For more about Rick and his work, please see:

https://rbmcdaniel.ca/

For online Zen training and information:

http://scienceofzen.org/