Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Yokoji Zen Mountain Center is a year-round Zen Buddhist training and retreat center located in the San Jacinto Mountains of Southern California. It is a 160 acres (65 hectares) of sacred Native American land and wilderness. Founded 1981 by Taizan Maezumi, Roshi as a summer retreat center for the Zen Center of Los Angeles.
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.
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.
One of the goals of the Zen Buddhism you practice is to cultivate fearlessness, which feels very relevant right now, given that, between war, climate change and political turmoil, there's a lot to ...
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.
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]