Claude Dalenberg
{{Short description|Zen priest}}
Claude Dalenberg (also known as Ananda Claude Dalenberg) (July 2, 1927{{cite web|title=Ananda Claude Dalenberg Biographical Notes |url=http://www.cuke.com/Cucumber%20Project/other/ananda-claude/bio-notes.html|publisher=Cuke.com|accessdate=April 9, 2015}} — February 18, 2008{{cite web|title=Dalenberg, Ananda Claude|url=http://sweepingzen.com/ananda-claude-dalenberg-bio/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130808031036/http://sweepingzen.com/ananda-claude-dalenberg-bio/|publisher=Sweeping Zen|archivedate=August 8, 2013|accessdate=April 9, 2015}}{{cite web|title=In memory of Ananda Claude Dalenberg|url=http://sweepingzen.com/in-memory-of-ananda-claude-dalenberg/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130619154224/http://sweepingzen.com/in-memory-of-ananda-claude-dalenberg/|publisher=Sweeping Zen|archivedate=June 19, 2013|accessdate=April 9, 2015}}) was a Zen priest ordained by Shunryū Suzuki and a dharma successor of Tenshin Reb Anderson.
Biography
Dalenberg was born on July 2, 1927, in South Holland, Illinois. Growing up in a Dutch-Reformist environment,{{cite book|last=Chadwick|first=David|authorlink=David Chadwick (writer)|title=Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki|url=https://archive.org/details/crookedcucumber00davi|url-access=registration|year=1999|publisher=Broadway Books|isbn=0-7679-0105-3|pages=[https://archive.org/details/crookedcucumber00davi/page/258 258]}} he attended Sunday school, catechism classes, Sunday morning and evening services.
After serving in the Navy, Dalenberg enrolled in Northwestern University in the School of Engineering. Dalenberg initially discovered Buddhism after attending a talk by Alan Watts in Chicago in 1949. Dalenberg eventually graduated Northwestern with a degree in Philosophy.
After moving to California in the 1950s, Dalenberg began attending the American Academy of Asian Studies where he met D.T. Suzuki, Gary Snyder and others who deepened his interest in Buddhism. Dalenberg was a member of a zazenkai group with Snyder, Philip Whalen, Albert Saijo, and Lew Welch.{{cite book|last=Fields|first=Rick|title=How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America|year=1992|pages=220|publisher=Shambhala Publications|ISBN=0-87773-631-6}} He studied with Nyogen Senzaki in Los Angeles as well as with Hodo Tobase at Sokoji in San Francisco.
In the mid-1960s, Dalenberg met Shunryū Suzuki and began studying with him, eventually becoming a Senior Priest at the San Francisco Zen Center.{{cite book| last =Ford| first =James Ishmael| authorlink =James Ishmael Ford| title =Zen Master Who?: A Guide to the People and Stories of Zen| publisher =Wisdom publications| year =2006| pages =[https://archive.org/details/zenmasterwhoguid00jame/page/134 134]| isbn =0-86171-509-8| url-access =registration| url =https://archive.org/details/zenmasterwhoguid00jame/page/134}}
Dalenberg enjoyed learning from other Buddhist sects and often attended services at a Buddhist Churches of America branch near Sokoji.{{cite web|last=Chadwick|first=David|authorlink=David Chadwick (writer)|title=Remembering Ananda Claude Dalenberg|url=http://www.cuke.com/Cucumber%20Project/other/ananda-claude/remembering-ananda.htm|publisher=Cuke.com|accessdate=April 9, 2015}} He was also involved with Quakers and worked with them towards prison abolition.
He served as President of the Buddhist Council of Northern California and helped establish the East-West House in San Francisco.
Dalenberg appeared under the pseudonym "Bud Diefendorf" in Jack Kerouac's novel The Dharma Bums.
References
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External links
- [http://www.cuke.com/Cucumber%20Project/other/ananda-claude/ananda-hub.html Ananda Claude Dalenberg main page] at David Chadwick's website
- [http://www.cuke.com/Cucumber%20Project/other/ananda-claude/ken-oneill.html Ananda Claude Dalenberg – Remembering My Friend]
- [http://www.cuke.com/pdf-2013/chfriends/chfriends.htm Ananda Claude Dalenberg's Cloud-hidden Friends, Universal Life Friends, & Zen Freethinker Newsletters]
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Category:San Francisco Zen Center