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 inContinue reading “Peggy Rowe Ward”
Monthly Archives: October 2026
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 ZenContinue reading “Zenshuji”
