Yuko Wakayama Yamada

Yuko Wakayama Yamada is the vice abbess of Shogakuji, a Soto Zen monastery in Tokyo, Japan, and the first nun to teach at Eiheji, the head monastery of Soto Zen.

a formerly catholic nun who became a zen nun sits in meditation

One Nun, Two Faiths

A Japanese devotee’s journey from Catholicism to Zen

By Yuko Wakayama Yamada with Lon Kurashige

Winter 2019

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