Shinzen Young
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Shinzen Young (真善, Shinzen) is an American meditation teacher. He leads residential and phone-based meditation retreats for students interested in learning the Vipassana (insight) tradition of Buddhism. He was originally ordained in Japan as a monk in the Shingon (Japanese Vajrayana) tradition.[1] He has studied and practiced extensively in other traditions, including Zen and Native American traditions.
Young's interest in integrating meditation with scientific paradigms has led to collaborations with neuroscientists at Harvard Medical School,[2][3] University of Massachusetts Medical School, Yale, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Vermont.[4] He is working on various ways to bring a secular mindfulness practice to a wider audience using revamped terminology and techniques as well as automated expert systems.[5] He published a book summarizing his system of meditation entitled The Science of Enlightenment in 2016.