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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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Sumeru catalogue 2016

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We are pleased to release our catalogue of books from The Sumeru Press for 2016. You can download the catalogue here: Sumeru catalogue 2016  

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Cypress Trees in the Garden

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We are pleased to announce that Richard Bryan McDaniel’s final volume in his quartet of books on the history of Zen is now available. Richard Bryan McDaniel’s Cypress Trees in the Garden: The Second Generation of Zen Teaching in America continues the history of North American Zen which he began in The Third Step East: Zen... Read more »

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