Toni Packer

Toni Packer
Packer (1978)
BornApril 1927
Died23 August 2013 aged 86
Mount Morris, New York, U.S.
Known forMeditative inquiry
SpouseKyle Packer

Toni Packer (April 1927 – August 23, 2013) was a teacher of “meditative inquiry”, and the founder of Springwater Center. Packer was a former student in the Sanbo Kyodan lineage of Zen Buddhism, and was previously in line to be the successor of Phillip Kapleau at the Rochester Zen Center.