Background
In 1949 Bhikkhu Cintita was born in San Francisco, California, to David Dinsmore and Alma Morris, half a block from what is now the San Francisco Zen Center.
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Bhikkhu Cintita
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Theravada. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, as a mathematics major during college but dropped out and traveled to Europe.
Career
In 1975 he earned his Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics at California State University, Sonoma. He earned his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics from University of California, San Diego.
In 1979 Bhante was a Research Fellow in Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft in Germany where he began meditation practice.
Before ordaining Bhante Cintita was a successful academic and professor, holding positions at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Kansas, and Southern Illinois University. He was also the Chief Executive Officer of a software company.
From 2003-2009 he was a priest at the Austin Zen Center. His ordination name, "Cintita," means good thinker.
