The origins of Kaua‘i’s Soto Zen Buddhist Temple date back to McBryde Sugar Co.’s Wahiawa Camp in 1903, the year the Rev. Ryoun Kan arrived there to begin preaching Soto Zen Buddhism in Tsuneo Takai’s ...

For about a year after Ruth Ozeki’s father died in 1998, she would hear him clearly calling her name while she washed the dishes or folded laundry. The award-winning author, filmmaker and Soto Zen ...

As the third chime of a bell faded, a meditation session at Stone Mountain Zendo on Oct. 27 began. Sitting on "zafus," a type of mat, a small group of people faced the wall and meditated in silence.

Soto Zen Buddhism is a Japanese variation on the religion centering around the spiritual enlightenment and subsequent teachings of Siddhārtha Gautama, otherwise known as Buddha, or “Enlightened One,” ...

Soto Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki marched toward Northampton City Hall, propped up in her palms were papers wrapped in a purple linen cloth. Behind her, New England Peace Pagoda Venerable Brothers ...