Dai Bai Zan Cho Bo Zen Ji

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Dai Bai Zan Cho Bo Zen Ji is a Zen temple in the Rinzai Dharma line, located on Capitol Hill in Seattle, Washington. Its name translates from Japanese as "The Listening to the Dharma Zen Temple on Great Plum Mountain."

1 History, lineage, and teachers
2 Activities
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] History, lineage, and teachers

Dai Bai Zan Cho Bo Zen Ji was founded in Seattle, Washington by Zen Master Genki Takabayashi. Genki Roshi 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 formalized his teaching style around a small group of students and founded Cho Bo Zen Ji. Before Genki Roshi came to Seattle, he trained for nearly twenty years at Daitoku-ji, the parent Rinzai temple in Japan, founded in 1319. In addition Genki Roshi directed a Rinzai temple in Kamakura, Japan. He entered the monastery when he was eleven years old.

After twenty years of tirelessly giving himself to the transmission of Buddha Dharma to the United States, in 1997 he retired as teacher, got married and moved to Montana. There he is planting the seeds for yet another American Zen group, and doing the activities he loves best, gardening, pottery, and cooking. In 1990, Genki Roshi fully ordained two priests, including Kokan Genjo Marinello Osho and Daiju Gentei Diedricks Osho, who now lives in the Bay Area.

Genjo Osho began his Zen training in 1975, and was ordained an unsui in 1980. In 1981-1982 he trained at Ryutaku-Ji in Japan. Genjo Osho is assisted by one additional ordained priest in training, Genko Kathy Blackman. Genjo Osho was formally installed as the second Abbot on Rinzai Zenji's (d.866) memorial day 1999-01-10. In addition to being the Abbot, Genjo Osho is a psychotherapist in private practice, a certificated spiritual director from a program affiliated with the Vancouver School of Theology, married to wife, Carolyn, and devoted father to daughter, Adrienne. The temple is in the Rinzai Zen Dharma Line, and now that Genki Roshi is retired, Genjo Marinello Osho trains under the tutelage of Ven. Eido T. Shimano Roshi, abbot of Dai Bosatsu Monastery in New York, who has certified Genjo Osho as a Dharma Teacher. Genjo Osho-san is a member of the American Zen Teachers Association.