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Cypress Trees in the Garden book review
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Cypress Trees in the Garden: The Second Generation of Zen Teaching in America, by Richard Bryan McDaniel (Sumeru, 2015), was recently reviewed in Chobo-ji’s Plum Mountain News, Winter 2015-16 edition. In fact, there were two reviews. Here they are… Cypress Trees in The Garden by Rev. Rinzan Pechovnik McDaniel’s previous book, The Third Step East... Read more »
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Albert Low dead
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Albert Low, long-time director of the Montreal Zen Centre, has passed away, peacefully in his sleep, during the early morning hours of January 27th, 2016. Gate, gate, para gate, para sam gate. Bodhi, sva ha. Here is the statement from the Montreal Zen Centre: We at the Montreal Zen Center are mourning the recent death... Read more »
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Albert Low hospitalized
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Breaking news: Albert Low (b. 1928), a western Zen Master of the Kapleau lineage and director of the Montreal Zen Center, has been hospitalized with a head injury resulting from a fall. Albert has been in increasingly frail health for a while now and has severe mobility issues. It now appears that he will need... Read more »
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Reverend Michael Hayashi passes away
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Reverend Michael Hayashi, of the Manitoba Buddhist Temple, has passed away. Here is the letter posted by the Living Dharma Centre, the Jodo Shinshu umbrella organization in Canada: To Temples, board members, members and friends, Reverend Michael Hayashi, our wise, caring and genuine friend, the minister for the Manitoba Buddhist Temple has entered the Pure... Read more »
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Alexandra David Neel YA bio
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Next up from Sumeru… INCOGNITO, a novel of Alexandra David Neel. Here’s a sneak peek.
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