Conversations with North American Zen Teachers
Myotai Treace
Hermitage Heart – Myotai Treace was John Daido Loori’s first Dharma successor. She served for many years as vice abbess of Zen Mountain Monastery and later as abbess of Fire Lotus Temple in New York City. She is the founder of Hermitage Heart where she now teaches from the mountains of North Carolina. “I once…
Peggy Rowe Ward
Lotus Institute Peggy Rowe Ward and her late husband, Larry Ward, established the Lotus Institute in the tradition of the Vietnamese teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh. “As a little girl, I had a real connection with Jesus,” she tells me, “I really felt he was my friend. And I had a lot of insights being in…
Zenshuji
A conversation with Shumyo Kojima – In 1922 – two years before Sokei-an Sasaki began his lectures on Buddhism at the Orientalia Bookstore in New York City, and a full thirty-seven years prior to Shunryu Suzuki’s arrival in San Francisco – the Japanese Soto-shu established the Zenshuji Soto Mission in Los Angeles, the first Zen…
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