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This list of internet resources is not meant to be comprehensive, but offers resources of interest to the Stillpoint sangha. Please email the webmaster with any suggestions of sites to add to this list.

Teachers:

Janet Jiryu Abels
Still Mind Zendo

Still Mind Zendo, formed in 1994, is in the Soto-Rinzai lineage of Taizan Maezumi Roshi and the White Plum Asanga. Their teacher, Janet Jiryu Abels, is dharma successor to Roshi Robert Jinsen Kennedy, S.J., in this lineage. Read about Janet's discovery of Zen in an article in Cross Currents Magazine, available here.

Reb Anderson, Tenshin Roshi

Reb Anderson, Tenshin Roshi is a lineage holder in the Soto Zen tradition, ordained as a priest by Shunryu Suzuki in 1970. Tenshin Roshi teaches at the San Francisco Zen Center.

Issho Fujita
Valley Zendo

Rev. Issho Fujita is the resident teacher and director of Valley Zendo in Western Massachusetts. He has led retreats at Stillpoint for several years.

Shohaku Okumura
Sanshin Zen Community

Sanshin Zen Community is a network of individuals and groups who practice the shikantaza (just sitting zen) taught by Dogen Zenji and study under the guidance of Shohaku Okumura Sensei, in the manner taught by Kosho Uchiyama Roshi.

Zuiko Redding
Cedar Rapids Zen Center

A Zen Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, practicing in the Soto-Zen tradition. Resident teacher Zuiko Redding periodically visits Stillpoint to teach students preparing to receive the precepts how to sew a rakusu.

Dai-En Bennage
Mt. Equity

Mt. Equity Zendo is a dwelling place for the practice of Dogen Zen or Shikantaza (serene reflection), the central school of the Soto Zen tradition, and the seamless practice of mindfulness. Located in northeastern Pennsylvania, Mt. Equity is under the direction of Rev. Dai-En Bennage.

Kyoki Roberts
Zen Center of Pittsburgh

Zen Center of Pittsburgh is a Soto Zen Buddhist Temple, in the lineage of Rev. Dainin Katagari. Founded in 1999, ZCP is situated just thirty minutes north of Pittsburgh, PA. Serving as the head priest is Rev. Kyoki Roberts.

Thich Nhat Hanh
Plum Village Meditation Center

Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh has earned a reputation as a respected writer, scholar, and leader. He championed a movement known as "engaged Buddhism," which intertwined traditional meditative practices with active nonviolent civil disobedience. He has been living in exile from his native Vietnam since 1966, and calls Plum Village, a meditation retreat center he founded in the south of France, his home.

Zen Centers and Buddhist Organizations:

Buddhist Peace Fellowship

BPF's programs, publications, and practice groups link Buddhist teachings of wisdom and compassion with progressive social change.

Buddhist Society of Pittsburgh

The Buddhist Society of Pittsburgh is an association of Buddhist groups, formed for the purpose of disseminating information about and promoting the growth and cooperation of its member groups, as well as meeting the needs of individual Buddhist practitioners.

The International Zen Association

The International Zen Association is composed of the disciples of Master Taisen Deshimaru, a student of Kodo Sawaki, as well as all the Soto Zen dojos and zazen groups whose coordinators practice together regularly at the Zen Temple of La Gendronniere during the major annual sesshins.

Mount Baldy Zen Center

Mt. Baldy Zen Center is a community engaged in the study and practice of Rinzai Zen Buddhism. It was founded by Joshu Sasaki Roshi, and through his guidance the monks and nuns continue to conduct the training in a traditional manner.

San Francisco Zen Center

The San Francisco Zen Center was established in 1962 by the late Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi, and has grown into three Zen Center practice places: Beginner's Mind Temple in San Francisco, Green Gulch Farm in Marin County, and Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, the first Zen training monastery in the West.

Zen Mountain Monastery -
Mountains and Rivers Order

The Mountains and Rivers Order (MRO) is an organization of associated Zen Buddhist temples, practice centers and sitting groups in the United States and abroad. MRO was founded by Abbot John Daido Loori, inspired by Zen Master Dogen's Mountains and Rivers Sutra. The mainhouse of the order is Zen Mountain Monastery, a residential retreat center in the Catskills of New York state.

References and Resources:

International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism

A very large site full of Zen texts, research, and an international index of Zen Centers.

Soto Zen Text Project

A continually-growing online resource for translations and explanations of Soto Zen liturgy.

Zen Buddhism WWW Virtual Library

The Internet Guide to Zen Online Resources. Currently this page provides WWW links to nearly 200 information facilities world-wide.

Buddhanet.net - Buddhist Information and Education Network

Buddhanet's eBook Library has extensive titles on general Buddhist topics as well as Mahayana and Therevadin texts and teachings.

Access to Insight - Readings in Theravada Buddhism

One of the highlights to this website is it's modern translations of over 800 important suttas in the Pali Canon (Tipitaka).

 


 
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