Gerry Shishin Wick

Who is Gerry Shishin Wick?

Gerry Shishin Wick is a Soto Zen roshi, author, oceanographer and abbot of Great Mountain Zen Center which he founded in 1996—one of twelve Dharma Successors of the late Taizan Maezumi. He has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, and has held a variety of jobs in the scientific community as well as an adjunct teaching position at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. He is currently president of White Plum Asanga, an organization which acknowledged him as a roshi in 2000. In 2006, Wick received inka from Bernard Glassman.