by Sangha News editor | Jan 1, 2014 | For Myogen Steve Stucky, In Memoriam
The following obituary was posted on SFZC’s Sangha News blog this afternoon. Daitsu Myogen Steven Stücky (Great Pervading Subtle Eye; March 6, 1946 – December 31, 2013) San Francisco Zen Center’s first central abbot, Myogen Steve Stücky, died shortly after 4:00...
by Sangha News editor | Dec 31, 2013 | For Myogen Steve Stucky, In Memoriam
Steve died this morning at 4:04, peacefully at home with family. At City Center beginning at 6:00 this morning, we rang the densho (bell) 108 times, followed by a service. Similar services were held at Green Gulch and Tassajara, and we are all sitting with his memory...
by Sangha News editor | Dec 31, 2013 | Features, Governance, News, Zen Practice
Daitsu Myogen Steven Stücky (Great Pervading Subtle Eye; March 6, 1946 – December 31, 2013) San Francisco Zen Center’s first central abbot, Myogen Steve Stücky, died shortly after 4:00 on the morning of December 31 at his home in Rohnert Park, California. He was 67....
by Sangha News editor | Dec 31, 2013 | News
As we will be chanting the Great Compassionate Mind Dharani in a memorial service next week acknowledging Venerable Bhante Suhita Dharma’s passing, we thought to offer this article written by Lee Lipp for the Windbell, a publication of San Francisco Zen Center. Here...
by Sangha News editor | Dec 31, 2013 | News, Zen Practice
The Fall 2013 Practice Period at Tassajara, led by Abbess Kiku Christina Lehnherr, concluded with a shuso ceremony on December 18, featuring Shogen Danielson as shuso (head student). The photos below were taken after that ceremony. ...