Steve Hagen
Zen priest and Buddhism teacher
Steve Hagen is a Zen priest and Buddhist teacher who founded the Dharma Field Zen Center in Minneapolis. He wrote Buddhism – Plain and Simple.
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American Born 1945 in Duluth, United States
About Steve Hagen
Steve Hagen, born in 1945, is a Zen priest and a long-time teacher of Buddhism. He founded the Dharma Field Zen Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is its former head teacher. He studied with Zen Master Dainin Katagiri for fifteen years and is a Dharma heir of Katagiri-roshi. Hagen has written several books on Buddhism, including Buddhism – Plain and Simple, which by 2003 ranked among the five bestselling Buddhism books in the United States. In 2012 he revised his earlier book How the World Can Be the Way It Is and republished it under a new title.