Dennis Fujimoto / The Garden Island. Kaua‘i Soto Zen Temple Zenshuji volunteer Cameron Williams gets in bean-bag-toss practice Wednesday as the Celebrating the Spirit of Obon festival gets ...

Jimbo Haynes of Nacogdoches, Texas (Susana Camille Cox, whowas still in the Zen retreat zone, said it’s the oldest town in eastern Texas) wolfed down his third flying saucer at the Kaua‘i Soto ...

Some Mauians got a taste of Zen Buddhism. Earlier this month, Naoko Moller, who was born in a Soto-Zen temple in Niigata, Japan, gave a course in Zen cooking to about 40 people in two sessions at ...

Members of the 111-year-old Mantokuji Soto Zen Mission of Paia are hoping to save their temple building and cemetery from rapidly increasing erosion that has swept out into the shore break close ...