Bodhin Kjolhede
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Zen training
Kjolhede was ordained as a priest in 1976. In 1986 he was formally installed as Kapleau’s Dharma-successor and Abbot of the Rochester Zen Center.[2] He has additionally been offered transmission in a Sōtō lineage, but has thus far chosen to decline.[1][3]
Lineage
Kjolhede has authorized ten of his disciples as teachers, some of whom are independent teachers with their own dharma successors:
- Gerardo Gally
- Robert Goldmann
- Donna Kowal
- Kanja Odland
- Sante Poromaa
- John Pulleyn
- Sevan Ross
- Rick Smith
- Richard von Sturmer
- Amala Wrightson
Cloud-Water Sangha
The Cloud-Water Sangha is formed of centers led by Kjolhede's students and their disciples:
- Auckland Zen Centre (New Zealand)
- Berliner Zen-Gruppe (Germany)
- Casa Zen Mexico (Mexico)
- Cleveland Zazen Group (USA)
- Louisville Zen Center (USA)
- Madison Zen Center (USA)
- Rochester Zen Center (USA)
- Zenbuddhistiska Samfundet (Sweden, Finland, Germany, UK)
The name of the sangha is a translation of the Japanese term unsui.[4]
See also
Galleries
Chapin Mill
RZC
Notes
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External links
Harada Sogaku, Kuroda-Osaka-Maezumi & Harada-Yasutani Schools of Zen Buddhism and their Teachers (with elements of descriptive statistics)Script error: No such module "Navbox". Template:Authority control
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