by Sangha News editor | Dec 8, 2016 | Arts & Culture
Mountain Home by Greg Fain. A view of the Ventana Wilderness on the way into Tassajara. This photo reminds us of our gratitude that the summer fire in 2016 didn’t reach our monastery at Tassajara, and that the Fall 2016 Practice Period was able to begin only...
by Sangha News editor | Dec 13, 2016 | Arts & Culture
City Center courtyard maple leaf by Clare Hollander. Celebrating the rain and the end of autumn. The hanging raindrops Have not dried from the needles Of the fir forest Before the evening mist Of Autumn rises. — The Monk Jakuren (12th c. Japan; trans. by Kenneth...
by Sangha News editor | Dec 28, 2016 | News, Shuso
The shuso ceremony concluding the Fall 2016 Practice Period at Green Gulch Farm was on December 12 and at Tassajara on December 18. Additional photos from Green Gulch Farm shuso ceremony by Sara Tashker.
by Sangha News editor | Jan 11, 2017 | Arts & Culture, News, Zen Practice
There was a Jukai/Lay Initiation Ceremony at City Center on January 7, 2017. Photos by Sandy Lamerson. Receiving the precepts were Timothy Sandoe – Ryo Zan Kei Shin/Flowing Mountain Joyous Truth; Vanya Bekrenev – Kei Shin Zen Do/Respecting Truth Zen Way;...
by Sangha News editor | Feb 7, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Suzuki Roshi during the opening ceremony of the first practice period at Tassajara in 1967, with Togen Sumi (left) and Kobun Chino (right). Photographer unknown. A story about the first practice period and this ceremony is in the Wind Bell, vol. VI, nos. 2-4, Fall...