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Great Vow Zen Monastery is the the main center of the Zen Community of Oregon, providing training for those in the White Plum Asanga lineage. Founded in 2002 by co-abbots Jan Chozen Bays and Hogen Bays, the monastery takes inspiration from Jizo Bodhisattva's vow to save all beings in suffering. Kyogen Carlson and his wife, Gyokuko Carlson, collaborated with the opening of the monastery and sometimes teach there. The Carlson's own sangha, the Dharma Rain Zen Center, held the first sesshin at the monastery in May of 2002. Author James Ishmael Ford writes, "Great Vow is one of the most dynamic of the "new" generation of Zen centers, which attempt to be open and experimental while remaining firmly rooted in the traditions. Like other centers, it struggles with the meaning of ordination in the West, and how best to accommodate an essentially noncelibate monasticism."[1][1]
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