Buddhist Leader and Zen Teacher Peter Schneider Has Died at 87
Justin Whitaker
9 January 2025
The longtime Soto Zen teacher inspired countless practitioners through his steadfast leadership and compassionate guidance
Tassajara Zen Mountain Center Resident Found Dead After Solo Hike
Justin Whitaker
26 March 2024
Members and friends of the San Francisco Zen Center received tragic news this week after a beloved resident and worker at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center went missing and was later found dead.
Giving and Receiving
Maia Duerr
17 January 2024
A meditation on the virtue of generosity in our lives
The Yin and Yang of Teaching
John Harvey Negru
13 February 2023
Searching for a middle way in the Dharmic path for modern Westerners
Book Review: Poetry and Zen: Letters and Uncollected Writings of R. H. Blyth
Raymond Lam
8 July 2022
A look at Norman Waddell’s new anthology of letters, essays, and more from R. H. Blyth
The Dry Lake
Lluís Nansen Salas
28 March 2022
An intimate account of the rise and decline of one of Europe’s first centers of Zen Buddhism
Book Review: Dosho Port’s Translation of The Record of Empty Hall
Nina Müller
12 July 2021
An American Zen teacher brings koan practice to the modern world
Firefighting Monks in California Join Effort to Combat Wildfire and Protect Monastery
Nina Müller
29 June 2021
Zen Buddhists confront the reality of…
Daisetsu Teitarō Suzuki: “Suzuki Zen”
Daniel Millet Gil
28 June 2021
A careful analysis of D. T. Suzuki’s presentation of Zen and his academic critics