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HANAPEPE — A Bodhi tree, believed to be linked to the original tree the Buddha sat under in India more than 2,500 years ago, is thriving in the back of the Kauai Soto Zen Temple in Hanapepe. Kauai ...

The program begins at 2 p.m. and is open to the public. Dr. White, a longtime practitioner of Soto Zen, received permission to teach in 2016 from Rev. Dai-En Bennage, abbess of Mount Equity Zendo.

In Do Not Try to Become a Buddha, Irish Soto Zen priest Myozan Ian Kilroy offers a collection of essays that are as much about the rugged, rain-lashed hills of Ireland as they are about the quiet ...

He describes what’s happening during Zazen. “One of the famous lines of Dogen, the founder of Soto Zen in the 13th century, is: to study the Buddha ways is to study the self.

This is how days begin at Dairyuji, an 800-year-old Zen temple—a place of ancient beams, lofty halls, and deep, deep time—in Akita prefecture, in Japan's Tohoku region. But Dairyuji is also ...

Nyoze Kwong stands at the entrance to the “zendo” (Zen meditation hall) at Sonoma Mountain Zen Center. He has just finished his first year as abbot of the center after taking over from his ...