About
Brief Chronology
1951
born 3 November, in Louisville, KY, first child of a Jewish father, Marcum Jay Schneider—and a Baptist mother, Georgia Ethridge.
1952—1957
acquired three sisters: Jenny (now) O’Neill, Georgia (now) Ringle, Mary (now) Kiger.
1958—1969
public school education in Pittsburgh, PA.
1969—1971
Reed College, Portland, OR; first contact with Zen Buddhism.
1972—1988
resident in the properties of the San Francisco Zen Center, including:
The City Center, in San Francisco; Green Gulch Farm, in Marin County; Tassajara, Zen Mountain Center, in Los Padres National Forest;
Worked a variety of jobs within Zen Center, as almost everyone did. Mine included Librarian, Wind Bell Editor, grocery-store merchant, wholesale produce buyer, bakery worker (finishing department.) Also trained and worked as a Hellerwork practitioner.
1977
Jukai & Tokudo ordinations, San Francisco Zen Center;
1980
acquired a son, Christopher (Kit) Gallup, with Carol Gallup;
1984
Shuso, Hartford Street Zen Center;
1986
Vajradhatu Seminary, with Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche;
1988
Vajradhatu Seminary, as staff, with Ösel Tendzin;
1989—1992
Berkeley, Albany, San Francisco; continued as a Hellerworker;
Free-lance editor at MacWeek, and for Apple Computer;
1990
marriage to Melissa Moore; (1990—2001)
1992—1995
Davis, CA
1993
published Street Zen, with Shambhala Publications;
1994
co-edited, with Kazuaki Tanahashi, Essential Zen, HarperSF
1995—2003
Director, Shambhala Europe Marburg (1995—1999),
then Köln, Germany
2002
Daughter Lilian Georgia Schneider born, 17 June, mother Marilyn Janssen
1996—2019
Shambhala acharya
2015
Published Crowded by Beauty, The Life & Zen of Poet Philip Whalen, University of California Press
2020
published Goods, Short Stories, with Cuke Press