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unusual facts about Soto Zen



New Orleans Zen Temple

The New Orleans Zen Temple is a dojo of the Soto Zen tradition in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Taizan Maezumi

Maezumi was born on February 24, 1931 to Yoshiko Kuroda-Maezumi and Baian Hakujun Kuroda, a prominent Sōtō Zen priest, in his father's temple in Otawara, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.


see also

Lotus Sutra

Dogen, the 13th-century Japanese founder of Sōtō Zen Buddhism, used the Lotus Sūtra often in his writings.

Niihama, Ehime

Zuiō-ji is a Sōtō Zen temple at the edge of the mountains in south Niihama.

Shisen

Shisen-dō (詩仙堂), a Buddhist temple of the Sōtō Zen sect in Sakyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan

William Bodiford

In his section "Acknowledgments" in his book Sōtō Zen in Medieval Japan, Bodiford thanks the monks of the Eihei-ji temple in Japan who "kindly broke the rules" to teach him, before his university education began, about Sōtō Zen and Japanese beer.