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 ...

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.

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 ...

Suzuki-roshi had arrived in San Francisco on May 23, 1959, to attend to Sokoji, then the only Soto Zen temple in San Francisco. (Soto is the largest of the three traditional sects of Zen in Japanese ...

Des Moines' own Buddhist temple offers community members a chance for Zen and meditation through an array of practices available to everyone, irrespective of their spirituality. The Rev. Eishin ...

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 ...

TOYOTA, 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 ...