by Sangha News editor | Jul 15, 2013 | Arts & Culture, Features, Programs
Reirin Gumbel is a Zen priest who happens to also be an expert knitter and spinner of yarn—but these are parts of herself she weaves together quite naturally. Before she lived at Green Gulch, she owned a fiber arts business in Santa Cruz called The Golden Fleece. As...
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...