In 1987 the group had opened the Maitri Hospice for those dying of AIDS,[1] to which Dorsey himself succumbed in 1990.

For a time the center leased a building next door to house the sick, eventually offering nine hospice-beds for persons in extremis .

In 1991 famed Beat-era poet Zenshin Philip Whalen assumed the abbacy, until ill health obliged him to retire in 1996; he died in 2002.

Ottmar Engel, who served as Practice-Leader until health-concerns necessitated his return to his native Germany in 2001.

Myo Denis Lahey, who was completing a tenure as Prior (Tanto) at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in Carmel Valley, California, was invited to be Practice-Leader, and as of October 2013 was installed as HSZC's current Abbot.