by Sangha News editor | Aug 28, 2012 | For Katherine Thanas, In Memoriam
A memorial ceremony to honor Karin Sobun / Katherine Thanas, and marking 100 days since her passing from this world, will be held at Green Gulch Farm on Sunday, September 30, at 3pm. Founder of the Monterey Bay Zen Center and one of the original students of Shunryu...
by Sangha News editor | Jul 18, 2012 | For David Coady, In Memoriam
An informal gathering to mark the one-year anniversary of David Coady’s death will be held on Sunday, July 22 at 5pm. Sunday, July 22 5-7 p.m. SF Zen Center Conference Center 308 Page Street San Francisco Anyone who knew David is welcome to attend. Abbot Myogen...
by Sangha News editor | Jun 27, 2012 | For Katherine Thanas, In Memoriam
Also at Sweeping Zen, David Chadwick — Suzuki roshi biographer and Zen priest — offers Katherine Thanas a loving farewell: I met Katherine when she first came to sit and practice with Suzuki Roshi and the rest of us in 1967. She was older than many of us, late...
by Sangha News editor | Jun 27, 2012 | For Katherine Thanas, In Memoriam
Adam Tebbe at Sweeping Zen offers a thoughtful obituary for Katherine Thanas: Kind. Considerate. Radiant. Playful. These are words people used to describe Katherine Sobun Thanas when I told them I’d be doing this piece on her. Katherine passed away at 9:45 this...
by Sangha News editor | Jun 27, 2012 | For Katherine Thanas, In Memoriam
Sobun Katherine Thanas, founder of the Monterey Bay Zen Center and student of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, Dainin Katagiri Roshi, Zentatsu Baker Roshi, and Tenshin Reb Anderson, died on June 24 surrounded by loved ones and disciples, after sustaining a head injury that had...
