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 ...

Ordained as a Soto Zen monk in 2001, she lived in the San Francisco Zen Center for 15 years, doing housework and community outreach in addition to her studies. One time when Zen Center didn’t have ...

Recently, The Healthy @Reader's Digest spoke with two married Soto Zen monks, Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison and Sensei Robert ...

Book review: 'Fire Monks' by Colleen Morton Busch Book review ... Shunryu Suzuki, was a Japanese Soto Zen priest who came to San Francisco in 1959 to run a temple for his expatriate countrymen.

Ordained as a Soto Zen priest in 2003, he took the name Kojin Hosen and served at the Austin Zen Center. But monasticism in the Japanese Zen tradition left room for interpretation. Some monks were ...

Monk brings global view to Buddhism ... 56, a Soto Zen monk, these questions have shaped his entire life. "At the age of 10, I had an unexpected spiritual experience.

Eight Buddhist monks working to defend the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center near Big Sur, Calif., from a nearby wildfire have relied not only on the training they have received from professional ...

The zen monk expected a pre-dawn knock on his door, but the news on the other side wasn't what he anticipated. At first, Finnian Kelley, a member of the Tassajara Fire Crew, thought he'd missed ...

Earlier this month, Naoko Moller, who was born in a Soto-Zen temple in Niigata, ... so she bought 20 sets of dishes used by monks under training and began teaching shojin-ryori about four years ago.