The way The "goal" Background Chinese texts Classical Post-classical Contemporary Zen in Japan Seon in Korea Thiền in Vietnam Western Zen Jan Chozen Bays (born August 9, 1945), is a Zen teacher, author, mindful eating educator, and pediatrician specializing in work with abused children.

[1] Bays began practicing Zen in a group that included Charlotte Joko Beck, Anne Seisen Saunders, and Jerry Shishin Wick in San Diego.

[2] Chozen and Hogen Bays are also co-founders and co-abbots of Great Vow Zen Monastery of Clatskanie, Oregon, which opened in 2002.

[3][4] In 2011, Bays founded Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple in Portland, Oregon.

[1] In the 1980s and 1990s, she conducted the medical examinations of thousands of infants and children who had been abused or killed and regularly appeared in court as an expert witness.