Finding Zen River: Writings from 1999-2002 - Couverture souple

Coppens, Anton Tenkei; Gabrysch, Tamara Myoho

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798320148830

Editeur : Independently published, 2024

Synopsis

Finding Zen River. Writings from 1999-2002 was published to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Zen River Temple, a Zen Buddhist Training Temple in the north of The Netherlands. It is a compilation of letters written by Zen River’s founders, Anton Tenkei Coppens and Tamara Myoho Gabrysch, as they set out to find a suitable location to establish Zen River.

Written primarily to friends, family, and sangha members, the tone of these letters is quite informal and intimate. Reading them, we get to follow Tenkei and Myoho through the United States, Japan, and The Netherlands. The letters start in 1999 when they were about to leave the former Kanzeon Zen Center in Salt Lake City, and then detail their first adventures in Japan. Later letters reveal how Tenkei and Myoho arrived in the Netherlands with just two suitcases each and no fixed place to stay, and how they finally ended up moving into a beautiful property--after a long and often challenging period of searching.

Along the way, we see their vision clarify and their network of Sangha members grow. All in all, these letters give an inspiring and moving account of what it took to start a residential Zen centre in a country where this is still an unusual phenomenon.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798320148830
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 163
• Éditeur: Overbeek Tessa Gyosei
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