Rinzai Zen News Today

The Bon dance season is set to make its return to Maui this summer. The Japanese Buddhist tradition of Obon, which is held at various temples throughout Maui County, is a community celebration to honor and offer prayers to the spirits of ancestors through music and dance. The full 2024 Maui Bon Dance Schedule is posted HERE.

Hogon-in Temple in Arashiyama, is arguably the most impressive garden that tourists visiting the area must see. It is a Buddhist sub-temple of the Rinzai Zen head temple, Tenryu-ji. The temple was founded in 1461 and was initially constructed in the Kamigyo-ku district of Kyoto,&...

Dear Brothers and Sisters, We all know that everything in the world requires right timing. Since you were very little, you have learned that if you want to ask mom for some money to buy something, you have to wait for the right time, till she is happy and ready to hear your request and…

Glenn Webb was a brilliant scholar. And an influence on many of us in the Zen world. May his memory bring blessings to all...

Known for his relief work around the world, renowned Pritzker-Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban of Japan came to Maui to build a prototype of his sustainable temporary housing solution. His one-of-a-kind, unique engineering utilizes paper tubes as a structural system.

We might say Zen is the spiritual within religions. Zen offers the way to find that spiritual which shows us meaning in a meaningless world.

That we’re going to breathe anyway gives us something with minimal distraction. There are other aspects to breath and the meditative project.

Zen has a history.  And a recent part of that history is how Zen, the pearl of great price of Asian wisdom has come West.

Kenpo Karate is one of the most effective offshoots of Karate that has been developed. Known for its practicality and adaptability to be used in self-defense

The Japanese Zen master and critical figure in introducing Zen to the west, Soyen Shaku died on this day, the 29th of October, in 1919.