Strout-Mccandless, Ruth

Ruth Strout McCandless studied at Stanford University and Claremont Graduate School and in 1941 began her association with Senzaki. In 1955, while under the tutelage of Soen Nakagawa at Ryutaku-ji, she became the first Western woman to stay at a Zen monastery. She was one of the editors of "The Iron Flute", a collection of ancient Zen koans with essays by Senzaki.