
His book, No Beginning, No End: The Intimate Heart of Zen, published by Random House in 2003, has been translated into Spanish, German, and Polish. He has worked closely with other Buddhist lineages and spiritual traditions, including the late Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn, Catholic priests of the Benedictine Monasteries in Poland, Vietnamese Zen Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, Tibetan Master Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Cambodias spiritual leader Maha Ghosanda, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Kwong-roshi established Sonoma Mountain Zen Center in memory of his late teacher-Suzuki-roshi. Shunryu Suzuki recognized Jakusho Kwong as a dharma heir to his lineage shortly before his death.

In 1959, he began studying Zen with Shunryu Suzuki rshi, author of Zen Mind, Beginners Mind, and was one of his first students at Sokoji Temple of San Francisco.
