Sonoma Mountain Zen Center
What is Sonoma Mountain?
Sonoma Mountain Zen Center is a Zen center in Sonoma County whose resident teacher and abbot is Jakusho Kwong-roshi. The center was founded in 1974 in the rolling hills near Santa Rosa. The Zen center offers training for residents, members, and visitors. Kwong-roshi continues the Soto Zen lineage of Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, who was Kwong-roshi's teacher.
Kwong-roshi and his wife, Shinko, have been at Sonoma Mountain since the early seventies. They have created a wonderful place for practice and a center for residents and lay practitioners.
Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, a seminal figure in the development of American Zen and the author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, taught many students in the United States. His influence is felt widely. He also founded the San Francisco Zen Center and its branches, Green Gulch and Tassajara.
Buddhist Links
- Sonoma Mountain Zen Center (Genjoji)
- Home page for Soto Zen
- Shambhala Sun magazine
- Tricycle Magazine
- San Francisco Zen Center
- Crooked Cucumber
Aikido Links
OK, so it's not really Buddhist, but I am also a practitioner of the martial art of Aikido. It has many connections to Buddhism, although its founder, O Sensei, was a practitioner of a Shinto offshoot. It is one of the many paths that lead me to Buddhism, and is a difficult, challenging, and beautiful art more philosophically aligned with T'ai Chi than karate.
- Takemusu Aikido
- Traditional Aikido of Sonoma
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