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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 ...
Fresh Air listens back to our 1989 interview with Snow Leopard author and Paris Review co-founder Peter Matthiessen, who died Saturday at age 86. His new novel In Paradise comes out Tuesday.
The Silver City Zen Center is a Soto Zen community which holds zazen sessions at 6 a.m. Monday through Friday and 9 ... Stuetzer said Buddhism and Zen doesn’t seek to take the place of other ...
Soto Zen Buddhist priest-in-training Rev. Fugon Cindy Beach shares a personal story when trying to explain Buddhists' appreciation for "nonattachment." "My first pottery instructor came up to me an… ...
Some Mauians got a taste of Zen Buddhism. Earlier this month, Naoko Moller, who was born in a Soto-Zen temple in Niigata, Japan, gave a course in Zen cooking to about 40 people in two sessions at ...
Zen Buddhism event to be held in Moorhead ... Dr. White, a longtime practitioner of Soto Zen, received permission to teach in 2016 from Rev. Dai-En Bennage, abbess of Mount Equity Zendo.
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Jim Gordon, the Zen Buddhist priest at Green Mountain Zen Center in Huntsville, Ala., will give a free introduction to Buddhism, on Thursday, April 24, 2014, 6 p.m., at the ...
Today, Eihei-ji is the head training temple of Soto Zen Buddhism, and more than 200 priests and nuns call the temple home. Practicing Soto Zen priests from all over Japan, and even the United States’ ...
A senior official in the White House tasked with advising President Donald Trump on weapons of mass destruction is an ordained Zen Buddhist chaplain, who long ago reconciled Buddhism's non-violent ...
David Cooper of Open Circle Sangha in Helena will give a presentation Sunday at 10 a.m. on Eihei Dogen, a renowned Soto Zen teacher of Japan who lived from 1200 to 1253. The talk at Imacculata ...
Fukui Prefecture’s Eihei-ji Temple stands as one of Japan’s two head temples of Soto Zen Buddhism. Introduced to Japan in the 13th century by Dogen Zenji, the Soto school is the largest single ...