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Ōbaku Zen or the Ōbaku school (Japanese: 黄檗宗, romanized: Ōbaku-shū) is one of three main schools of Japanese Zen Buddhism, in addition to the Sōtō and Rinzai schools. The school was founded in Japan by the Chinese monk Ingen Ryūki , who immigrated to Japan during the Manchu conquest of China in the 17th century.
The zen center formed in 1981 as the Chapel Hill Zen Group. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The group was initially formed by former residents of the San Francisco Zen Center who had moved to North Carolina. [ 5 ] After growing in membership the organization changed its name to the Chapel Hill Zen Center in 1997.
Blue Cliff Monastery is an 80-acre (0.32 km 2) Thiền Buddhist monastery located in Pine Bush, New York. [1] [2] It was founded in May 2007 by monastic and lay practitioners from the Plum Village Tradition. [3] [4] The monastery is under the direction of Thích Nhất Hạnh's Order of Interbeing in the Thiền tradition.
[web 1] How to organize the continuity of the Zen-tradition in the west, constraining charismatic authority and the derailment it may bring on the one hand, [6] [7] [8] and maintaining the legitimacy and authority by limiting the number of authorized teachers on the other hand, [9] is a challenge for the developing Zen-communities in the west.
[10] Lindisfarne Guest House. Green Gulch operates, in addition to the Zen center, a 7 or 8-acre (32,000 m 2) organic vegetable farm and a 1 to 1.5-acre (6,100 m 2) fruit, herb and flower garden. [11] The fruit, herb and flower garden is, "arranged in a series of 'rooms' in the formal English style.
ZCLA observes a daily schedule of zazen, Buddhist services, and work practice. The Center's programs include introductory classes, sesshin, workshops and training periods, as well as face-to-face meetings with Abbot Wendy Egyoku Nakao and other Center teachers. The sangha practices zazen and koan training in the Maezumi-Glassman lineage. [1]
The hierarchical system of Zen has attracted severe criticism in the west, because of the misconception of the role and degree of awakening of Zen teachers. [ 3 ] [ 35 ] [ 36 ] The term rōshi has been applied to implicate a certified state of awakening, implying impeccable moral behaviour.
Shunryu Suzuki (鈴木 俊隆 Suzuki Shunryū, dharma name Shōgaku Shunryū 祥岳俊隆, often called Suzuki Roshi; May 18, 1904 – December 4, 1971) was a Sōtō Zen monk and teacher who helped popularize Zen Buddhism in the United States, and is renowned for founding the first Zen Buddhist monastery outside Asia (Tassajara Zen Mountain Center). [1]