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...
by Sangha News editor | Mar 22, 2012 | For Della Goertz, In Memoriam
Mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, Della was one of Suzuki Roshi’s early students at Sokoji Temple in San Francisco and lived in City Center’s 340 Page Street building for many years. Della was an important member of the Zen Center community and will be...
by Sangha News editor | Oct 26, 2011 | For David Coady, In Memoriam
From The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Massachusetts: David J. Coady, 46, of San Francisco, died unexpectedly Thursday, July 21, 2011. . . . Services will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011, at United First Parish Church Unitarian (Church of the Presidents), at...
by Sangha News editor | Aug 3, 2011 | For David Coady, In Memoriam
In his public dharma talk on Saturday at Beginner’s Mind Temple, Abbot Ryushin Paul Haller addressed what he called the “very delicate process” of healing, as a community and as individuals too. Of responding to the shock of loss: As those shockwaves...