Meet some of the bold eccentrics, scholars and artists who paved the way for Zen practice as we know it today — Sokei-an Sasaki, the “Original Dharma Bum” of 1920s and 30s America; Ruth Fuller Sasaki, a wealthy socialite who became the first American Zen priest; John Cage, whose silent musical compositions and lectures on Nothing outraged and inspired the world of art and music in the 1950s; former drag-queen-turned-Roshi Issan Dorsey, who founded the first AIDS hospice in America, and many more.