Fires snaked through ravines Wednesday in the Ventana Wilderness to within 3 miles of the oldest Soto Zen monastery outside of Asia, forcing the evacuation of firefighters and threatening the only ...

Recently, The Healthy @Reader's Digest spoke with two married Soto Zen monks, Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison and Sensei Robert Chodo Campbell.Koshin and Chodo co-founded the New York Zen Center for ...

In Do Not Try to Become a Buddha, Irish Soto Zen priest Myozan Ian Kilroy offers a collection of essays that are as much about the rugged, rain-lashed hills of Ireland as they are about the quiet ...

Kwong was ordained as a novice monk by his father in 2009 and in 2012 finished formal training at Eiheiji, the oldest monastery and the head temple of the Soto Zen School in Japan.

Dr. White, a longtime practitioner of Soto Zen, received permission to teach in 2016 from Rev. Dai-En Bennage, abbess of Mount Equity Zendo.

The Zen center, also known as the Deep River Temple or Shinsenj, received its designation by Sotoshu, the international Soto Zen Mission, on May 19, 2021.

The origins of Kaua‘i’s Soto Zen Buddhist Temple date back to McBryde Sugar Co.’s Wahiawa Camp in 1903, the year the Rev. Ryoun Kan arrived there to begin preaching Soto Zen Buddhism in ...