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Bon Dance season with a blend of traditional Buddhist rituals and Hawaii food continues this summer. Beginning in early June and running through mid-August, temples across the island are opening their ...

About 500 persons are gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the implantation of Soto Zen Buddhism in Europe. In this Zen temple, the oldest on the Old Continent, the work began in 1979 by ...

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 ...

The Zen monastery had been built on the site of a former Catholic orphanage. Though abandoned at the beginning of the 20th century, some of its Christian icons had been retained by the Buddhist monks.

That was the work the Rev. Sarah Dojin Emerson, a Soto Zen Buddhist teacher from the Brooklyn Zen Center, gave the group, asking those gathered where King delivered his 1967 speech against the ...

In the San Francisco Bay Area later in 1968, Hozan was exposed to Soto Zen practice at San Francisco Zen Center and Berkeley Zen Center, both established with the guidance of the late Shunryu Suzuki ...

Kwong-roshi — a dharma heir of Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, the founder of San Francisco Zen Center — and his wife, Shinko, cofounded Sonoma Mountain Zen Center (Genjo-ji Temple) in 1973.

Here are 6 things Zen monks can teach us about finding calm, focus, and presence: 1. Tame the mental chatter Active and uncontrolled thoughts are like mischievous monkeys, forever swinging from ...

Jakusho Kwong-roshi, founder and former abbot of Sonoma Mountain Zen Center, in his home near the center on Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. (Robbi Pengelly/Index-Tribune) ...

In September, the Cambodian Sangha Committee sent 10 young monks and the Lumbini Buddhist University in Nepal sent 34 undergraduate students to the academy for a year of study.

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.