Amid the chanting of sutras, the sounding of gongs and the curling smoke of burning incense. Chief Abbot Oda Sesso was ordaining a head priest for the Zen Buddhist temple of Daitokuji Ryosen-An in ...

In June last year, my father passed away. An and Jay, two of the Jikijitsus or timekeepers of our Zen meditation sessions offered to hold a Kanzeon for him. I am a Filipino Catholic, but I have been ...