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Daiyuzenji is a Rinzai Zen Buddhist temple located on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.. Daiyuzenji began in 1982 as the Illinois betsuin (branch temple) of Daihonzan Chozen-ji, a Rinzai Zen headquarters temple founded in 1979 in Honolulu, Hawaii by Omori Sogen Roshi (1904-1994), a successor in the Tenryu-ji line of Rinzai Zen.
Dennis Hirota is a professor in the Department of Shin Buddhism at Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan. He was born in Berkeley, California in 1946 and received his B.A. from University of California, Berkeley. In 2008, he was a visiting professor of Buddhism [1] at Harvard Divinity School where his studies focused on the Buddhist monk Shinran. [2]
The Buddhist Temple of Chicago (BTC) was founded in October 1944 by Gyomay Kubose, [1] [2] a minister of the Higashi Honganji branch of the Jōdo Shinshū ("True Pure Land School") sect, along with several laypeople who had been released from the Japanese American internment camps.
(Rinzai) Zen Buddhism was the first imported Buddhist trend to put down roots in North America. Though Soyen Shaku, Nyogen Senzaki and Sokei-an, [1] were among the first to reach a western audience, the single most important influence was D.T. Suzuki, who popularized Zen with his extensive writings. Early converts included Ruth Fuller Sasaki.
In 1970 Matsuoka left Chicago and moved to Long Beach, California, where he continued to preside over other communities. Matsuoka left the Soto-shu, [ 1 ] Matsuoka holding that Zen is a personal experience, and that the authority of the Soto Sect and its training monasteries (専門僧堂) inhibit the practice of Zen.
A group of prominent Chicago celebrities gathered frequently over the years at a Lincoln Park watering hole named Stanley’s Kitchen and Tap, where the owner afforded them some privacy and a ...
The Chicago Zen Center (CZC) is a Harada-Yasutani Zen practice center located in Evanston, Illinois [1] near Northwestern University currently led by Abbot Shodhin Geiman. Established in 1974, the Chicago Zen Center formed around an interested group of students who had attended a workshop given by Philip Kapleau in the early 1970s. [ 2 ]
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