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Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-ji
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Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-ji, or International Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-ji, is a Rinzai monastery and retreat center located in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. Maintained by the Zen Studies Society, Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-ji is led by Eido Tai Shimano—a Japanese roshi who is a Dharma heir to the late Soen Nakagawa. Located on fourteen-hundred acres near Beecher Lake[1] in a deciduous forest region[2], Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-ji was established on July 4, 1976.[1] The site offers daily services which include zazen, chanting and samu (work). Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-ji also offers traditional ango—"a three- month period of intensive spiritual training in a Zen monastery during the rainy season in summer"[3]—in addition to weeklong sesshins and weekend retreats interspersed throughout the year.[1] The monastery site is located atop a 2-mile (3.2 km) drive and one passes through Sangha Meadow, a cemetery for housing the cremated remains of deceased sangha (including a portion of the ashes of Soen Nakagawa). According to author Terrance Keenan, "At the entrance there is a small Jizo Bodhisattva statue and a large stone slab. Cut into the stone is the calligraphic figure of Do—or Way. Below this, much smaller, the words of a poem by Basho in English."[2]
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- ^ a b Wilson, 146-147
- ^ a b Keenan, xiii-xiv; 192
- ^ Fischer-Schreiber, et al.; 13
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