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Matsuoka-Roshi was born in Japan into a family of Zen priests dating back six hundred years. In the 1930s he was sent to America by Sōtōshū, the Sōtō Zen Buddhist authority in Japan, to establish the Sōtō Zen tradition in the United States. He founded Sōtō Zen temples in both Los Angeles and San Francisco. He also furthered his ...
1987: Maitri Hospice begins caring for AIDS patients at the Hartford Street Zen Center (the first Buddhist hospice of its kind in the United States) 1987: Issho Fujita becomes abbot of Pioneer Valley Zendo in Charlemont, Massachusetts; 1988: Blanche Hartman receives Dharma transmission from Sojun Mel Weitsman
The phrase Zen center was coined by American students of Shunryu Suzuki in the mid-twentieth century, and the San Francisco Zen Center became the first Zen center, incorporating in 1962. Neither temples nor monasteries (although at times operating such facilities), Zen centers occupy a unique place in the historical development of Zen Buddhism ...
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Jikai Dainin Katagiri (片桐 大忍, Katagiri Dainin, January 19, 1928 – March 1, 1990), was a Sōtō Zen priest and teacher, and the founding abbot of Minnesota Zen Meditation Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he served from 1972 until his death from cancer in 1990. He is also the founder of Hokyoji Zen Practice Community in Eitzen ...
[162] [167] Nevertheless, Mahayana Buddhist doctrine and East Asian Buddhist teachings remain an essential part of Zen Buddhism. Various Zen masters throughout the history of Zen, like Guifeng Zongmi, Jinul, and Yongming Yanshou, have instead promoted the "correspondence of the teachings and Zen", which argues for the unity of Zen and the ...
An ango (安居), or kessei (結制), is a Japanese term for a three-month period of intense training for students of Zen Buddhism, lasting anywhere from 90 to 100 days. [1] The practice during ango consists of meditation ( zazen ), study, and work ( samu (作務)).
She began Zen practice in her 40s with Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi in Los Angeles, [3] and later with Hakuun Yasutani and Soen Nakagawa. [3] Beck received Dharma transmission from Taizan Maezumi Roshi in 1978, [ 3 ] but broke with Maezumi over his actions and opened Zen Center San Diego in 1983, [ 3 ] serving as its head teacher until July 2006.