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Dick Verstegen
Publisher: Asoka
Dick Verstegen (1940) is a Zen teacher and Dharma successor to Nico Tyde¬man, who granted him Dharma transmission in 2017. He founded his first Zen Buddhist center in the Eindhoven region in 2000. A few years after the death of his first wife in 2005, he handed it over to his co-teachers Wanda Sluijter and Astrid de Keulenaar. In 2010 he founded Zen Center Nijmegen. He leads it from De Zendo at Museumpark Orientalis. From 1961 to 2001 he was a newspaper journalist and later an editor for several Buddhist magazines. He is currently active as a columnist, author and Zen teacher and has written five Zen books.