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 ...

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 the Kahului Jodo Mission. “Actually ...

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 ...

We visit with members of the Kaua‘i Soto Zen Temple in Hanapēpē, where the flying saucer originated. Then take you inside Bailey’s Antiques and Aloha Shirts in Kapahulu where the racks are ...

HANAPEPE — “It’s the middle of the week and the weather is nice,” said Gerald Hirata, president of the Kaua‘i Soto Zen Temple Zenshuji in Hanapepe. “I never expected this kind of turnout.

But Dairyuji is also the vibrant temple-home of the 38th head ... for a two-night Zen mindfulness retreat based around the ...