by Sangha News editor | Apr 27, 2015 | Arts & Culture, News, Zen Practice
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by Sangha News editor | Apr 20, 2015 | News
SFZC alumnus Jokan Zenshin Thomas (“Tim”) Buckley passed away at his home in Maine on April 17. Tim led the Branching Streams member sangha Great River Zendo in West Bath, ME. Tim took lay precepts (jukai) in 1970 with Suzuki Roshi, who had hoped to also...
by Sangha News editor | Mar 30, 2015 | Features, Zen Practice
A Branching Streams sangha profile Red Cedar Mountain Temple, perhaps better known as the Chapel Hill Zen Center (CHZC), is the only Soto Zen temple in Suzuki Roshi’s lineage located in the southeastern United States. “Red Cedar” refers to the many cedar trees on our...
by Sangha News editor | Mar 24, 2015 | Arts & Culture, Features, News, Programs, Zen Practice
Published by Wisdom Publications, 2015 Review by Shahara Godfrey Reverend Zenju Earthlyn Manuel has written a thoughtful and poignant book titled The Way of Tenderness: Awakening through Race, Sexuality, and Gender. As a black lesbian Zen priest, she invites us to...