Maitreya Matthew Carlos has practiced Zen Buddhism in the Ts'ao-tung/Soto manner for 20 years and received Dharma transmission in the summer of 2000. A spiritual teacher with students on both the east and west coasts of the United States, Matthew takes an improvisational attitude towards traditional forms, and seeks to re-synthesis the roots of the major Buddhist traditions in a manner appropriate for contemporary western practitioners. He was recently honored with the title 'rinpoche'.
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