“American monks are as rare as hens’ teeth,” Ajahn ... “They sort of think it’s just like Zen Buddhism, where you have a fat Buddha, you know? It helps because we have Ajahn here who ...

TEHACHAPI, Calif. — Atop the snow-covered mountains, the American Zen Buddhist monk awakens and begins his day with the morning bell chant, a series of 108 bows and the meditation exercises that ...

I was ordained as a Zen Buddhist monk in Sonamsa Temple in South Korea ... enraged and started yelling in English about the current American president, all eyes in the room immediately focused ...

Eido Shimano, the Japanese Zen Buddhist monk whose exploitative relationships with female followers over a fifty-year period were to tear apart the American Buddhist community, arrived in the ...

Maura O’Halloran became a Zen master in ... of entrance to the Buddhist priesthood. At this point she received her Buddhist name, “Daigo Soshin Bikuni”. “The monks are not at all sexist.

More so than is taught in Zen or Tibetan Buddhism ... Although nearly all students of Buddhism in Asia were monks, most American Buddhist students were laypeople with families, jobs and Western ...

"Buddhist monks don't meditate in the garden; they meditate in the meditation room!", a frustrated professor, coincidentally named Marc Keane, told Kane. The American notion of a Zen garden was a ...

American Buddhist monk Haubner (a pseudonym) asks his readers to “[p]lease be embarrassed for me” in provocative essays exploring his experiences of Zen. The author’s search to “grow into ...

Related to yesterday’s discussion of race, history, and repentance, a reader sends this thought-provoking letter to the editor of Tricycle, a Buddhist magazine. Its author is a Zen monk who ...

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have found that during meditation, Zen Buddhist monks show an extraordinary synchronization of brain waves known as gamma synchrony—a pattern ...