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 ...

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 ...

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 underway in Hanapepe.

The Zen center, also known as the Deep River Temple or Shinsenj, received its designation by Sotoshu, the international Soto Zen Mission, on May 19, 2021.

Fukui Prefecture’s Eihei-ji Temple stands as one of Japan’s two head temples of Soto Zen Buddhism. Introduced to Japan in the 13th century by Dogen Zenji, the Soto school is the largest single ...

As the founding abbot of Shao Shan Temple – a small Soto Zen Temple in Woodbury, Vermont - her life influenced and inspired many people to find the still center in meditation.

T OYOTA, Aichi -- This June, Italian writer Dacia Maraini visited Kosaiji temple of the Soto Zen Buddhist school in this central Japan city. Wearing sunglasses, she climbed up the steps surrounded ...