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. ...
by Sangha News editor | Dec 24, 2013 | For Myogen Steve Stucky, In Memoriam
Dear Friends, I have not provided an update since before the Stepping Down Ceremony on December 15th, and I am having a surprisingly difficult time calling Steve not Abbot Steve but Senior Dharma Teacher Steve. Although this is the title normally given to abbots who...
by Sangha News editor | Dec 18, 2013 | For Myogen Steve Stucky, In Memoriam
My death asks so much of you. Please accept this as a teaching for yourself and for our Sangha. Accept with gratitude. —Myogen Steve Stücky In a modified ceremony on Sunday, December 15, Abbot Steve Stücky formally stepped down from his position as central abbot of...