• Source: Dai Bai Zan Cho Bo Zen Ji

Dai Bai Zan Cho Bo Zen Ji (Japanese: 大梅山 聴法禅寺) is a Rinzai-style Zen temple located on North Beacon Hill in Seattle, Washington. Its name translates from Japanese as "Listening to the Dharma Zen Temple on Great Plum Mountain."




History, lineage, and teachers


Dai Bai Zan Cho Bo Zen Ji was founded by Zen Master Genki Takabayashi in 1983. Genjo Marinello Oshō succeeded Genki Rōshi in 1999 as the second abbot of Chobo-ji.




= Genki Takabayashi

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Genki Takabayashi Rōshi was invited by the Seattle Zen Center (founded by Dr. Glenn Webb, at the time a University of Washington Art History professor) to become the resident teacher in the fall of 1978. He accepted, and by 1983 founded Cho Bo Zen Ji. In Japan, he trained for nearly twenty years at Daitoku-ji, one of two parent Rinzai school temples. Takabayashi also directed a Rinzai temple in Kamakura. He became a monk at age 11. In 1997, Takabayashi retired and moved to Montana. Genki died on February 25, 2013, at his home in Montana, at the age of 81.




= Genjo Marinello

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Genjo Marinello Oshō began his Zen training in 1975 and was ordained as an unsui, or novice monk, in 1980. From 1981-1982 he trained at Ryutaku-ji in Japan with Sochu Rōshi and Soen Nakagawa Rōshi. Marinello later continued his training with Eido Shimano Rōshi, abbot of Dai Bosatsu Monastery. On May 21, 2008, Marinello received dharma transmission from Eido Shimano Rōshi, in a ceremony also involving his former teacher Takabayashi.
Marinello is a licensed psychotherapist, a member of the interfaith organization Spiritual Directors International), and of the American Zen Teachers Association.
Marinello has served as an adjunct faculty member of Antioch University Seattle. He has volunteered as a Buddhist pastor for the Washington State Department of Corrections, been a meditation instructor for Birankai International (Aikido association) and has worked with the Seattle Church Council as part of an interfaith trauma response team).
Several of Marinello's Dharma Talks have been published, including in the Theosophical Society's Quest Magazine, Sansho Journal and the journal of the Zen Studies Society. Genjo Oshō's commentary on Zen Koan Practice has been translated into several languages.




Activities


weekly Introductions to Zen
daily Zazen
bimonthly Sunday Dharma Talks
quarterly week-long sesshins
monthly half-day sesshins
Prison Dharma Work




See also


Zen
Rinzai school
Buddhism in the United States
Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States
History of the Japanese in Seattle
Index of Buddhism-related articles




Notes






References






External links


Official website

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Daftar kuil Buddha
• Kyouiku kanji
• Dai Bai Zan Cho Bo Zen Ji
• List of Buddhists
• List of American Buddhists
• Index of Buddhism-related articles
• Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States
• Claude AnShin Thomas
• List of places of worship in Seattle
• History of the Japanese in Seattle
• List of Buddhist temples in the United States
• List of acupuncture points