Geri Larkin | |
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Title | Priest |
Personal | |
Born | Geraldine Ann Kapp 1950 (age 73–74) Lafayette, ID, USA |
Religion | Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism |
Children | 2 |
School | Seon |
Senior posting | |
Teacher | Samu Sunim |
P'arang Geri Larkin, born Geraldine Kapp Willis, is founder and former head teacher of Still Point Zen Buddhist Temple, a Korean Chogye center in Detroit, Michigan. [1] The name Geri Larkin is a pen name. She graduated from Barnard College in 1973. [2] Larkin, daughter of a wealthy IBM executive, left her successful business life as a management consultant to enter a Buddhist seminary for three years, where she was ordained. When she left she sold her material possessions and bought a brick duplex in downtown Detroit which, with the help of local residents she cleaned up and turned into Still Point. Larkin's articulation of the concept of " right livelihood" was highly influential on Ann Perrault and Jackie Victor, two of her students who founded Avalon International Breads in Detroit in 1997. [3] She has been a longtime columnist for Spirituality & Health magazine. [4]
She currently resides in Eugene, Oregon.
Geri Larkin | |
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Title | Priest |
Personal | |
Born | Geraldine Ann Kapp 1950 (age 73–74) Lafayette, ID, USA |
Religion | Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism |
Children | 2 |
School | Seon |
Senior posting | |
Teacher | Samu Sunim |
P'arang Geri Larkin, born Geraldine Kapp Willis, is founder and former head teacher of Still Point Zen Buddhist Temple, a Korean Chogye center in Detroit, Michigan. [1] The name Geri Larkin is a pen name. She graduated from Barnard College in 1973. [2] Larkin, daughter of a wealthy IBM executive, left her successful business life as a management consultant to enter a Buddhist seminary for three years, where she was ordained. When she left she sold her material possessions and bought a brick duplex in downtown Detroit which, with the help of local residents she cleaned up and turned into Still Point. Larkin's articulation of the concept of " right livelihood" was highly influential on Ann Perrault and Jackie Victor, two of her students who founded Avalon International Breads in Detroit in 1997. [3] She has been a longtime columnist for Spirituality & Health magazine. [4]
She currently resides in Eugene, Oregon.