Zenki Christian Dillo Roshi

Zenki Christian Dillo Roshi came to Zen in 1996 at the San Francisco Zen Center and
began practicing monastically at the Crestone Mountain Zen Center in 2001, where he
trained for nearly two decades. He received dharma transmission in 2013 and has
served as Boulder Zen Center’s Guiding Teacher since then, moving to Boulder with his
family in 2020 to devote himself full-time to BZC.

Zenki Roshi teaches Zen as a craft, rooted in what he calls a “transformative
phenomenology” — an embodied investigation of human experience in the service of
liberation, wisdom, and compassion. His book, The Path of Aliveness: A Contemporary
Zen Approach to Awakening Body and Mind (Shambhala, 2022) and his podcast Zen
Mind bring that investigation into living practice.