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Soto Zen

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Tenzo

Soto Zen monks Chiken and Ryugyo, two classmates, grapple with the trauma of Japan's post-Fukushima socio-economic crisis while trying to lead their respective temples. Tenzo freely blends fact and fiction in a genre-bending experimental tale based…

By Katsuya Tomita

Jul 2021

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Magazine | Openings

An Understanding Beyond Words

A yearly retreat bridges the gap between Buddhism and psychoanalysis.

Summer 2021

dogen mountains and rivers

IdeasMagazine | Books, Reviews

Students of Mountains and Rivers

The new tradition of study emerging around one of Soto Zen’s foundational texts

Fall 2020

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Personal Reflections Society

The Karma of Becoming American

I became a U.S. citizen on June 19. Here’s what I know to be true.

By Duncan Ryuken Williams

Jul 14, 2020

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Zen for Nothing

Sabine, a Swiss actress, joins life at a small Soto Zen monastery in Japan to learn more about herself. The beautiful photography and sometimes difficult discoveries are interspersed with quotations from the eminent Zen master Kodo…

By Werner Penzel

Jul 2020

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

Magazine | Feature

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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Magazine | Openings, Visiting Teacher

Visiting Teacher: Tenku Ruff, Osho

Q&A with Tenku Ruff, Osho, a Zen priest in New York and president of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association.

Fall 2019

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MeditationMagazine | Special Section

Breathe Deep

The key to meditative concentration is not mental, but physical—and you can find it in your lower abdomen.

Winter 2018

Meditation Zen Buddhism

My Short Brilliant Zen Career

A Theravada practitioner is temporarily dazzled by the aesthetics of a Zen sesshin.

By Sandy Boucher

Oct 20, 2017

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