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| Denomination | Mountains and Rivers Order (Zen) |
| Founded | 1980 |
| Founder(s) | John Daido Loori |
| Abbot(s) | Konrad Ryushin Marchaj |
| Address | P.O. Box 197 Mount Tremper, New York 12457 |
| Country | United States |
| Website | Zen Mountain Monastery |
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Camp Wapanachki
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| Location: | S. Plank Rd. (Old Co. Rt 28) at jct. with Miller Rd., Shandaken, Mt. Tremper, New York |
| Area: | 235 acres (95 ha) |
| Built: | 1935 |
| Architect: | Haffner, V.L.S. |
| Governing body: | Private |
| NRHP Reference#: | 94001372[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | November 25, 1994 |
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Zen Mountain Monastery (or, Doshinji, meaning Temple of the Way of Reality) is a Zen Buddhist monastery and training center on a 230-acre (0.93 km2) forested property in the Catskill Mountains in Mount Tremper, New York. It was founded in 1980 by John Daido Loori, originally as the Zen Arts Center. It combines the Rinzai and Sōtō Zen traditions, in both of which Loori received dharma transmission. Since Loori's death in October 2009, Zen Mountain Monastery has two teachers: Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, who received Dharma transmission from Loori in 1997, and Konrad Ryushin Marchaj, the abbot of the monastery.
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The monastery was originally built as Camp Wapanachki in the 1930s. The massive Arts and Crafts style stone and wood frame former retreat house and chapel was built in two phases between about 1935 and 1938. The four story "main house" is the earliest section. It contains living spaces, libraries, a small cellar and a large kitchen. The later section is built of bluestone and contains a dining hall and chapel.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.[1]
Students and residents of the monastery practice according to Abbot Loori's Eight Gates of Zen training matrix. These gates include zazen, face to face teaching, liturgy, moral and ethical teachings, work practice, body practice, art practice and academic study. This occurs either at home for lay students or at the monastery during weekend retreats and monthly week long sesshin (meditation intensives). The monastery's schedule includes a Sunday morning program open to the general public and a variety of weekend and week-long Zen training programs, focusing variously on painting, poetry, shakuhachi performance, Zen archery (kyūdō), qigong, and many other activities.
The monastery grounds are also home to the Zen Environmental Studies Institute and Dharma Communications, which runs The Monastery Store and WZEN.org online radio and publishes Mountain Record: The Zen Practitioner's Journal and other print, audio, video and online information resources.
In addition to supporting the lay community, ZMM is home to a number of monastic practitioners. These individuals have taken life vows of simplicity, selflessness, stability, service and accomplishing the Buddha's Way. As a result, they do not work outside the monastery, earn money, or have children. As the Mountain Record, states: "Monastics in the order are entirely dependent on the sangha while maintaining the Monastery for current practitioners and sustaining it for generations to come."
ZMM is the main house of the Mountains and Rivers Order, an umbrella organization inspired by the teachings of Dogen as found in the "Mountains and Rivers Sutra." Founded by John Daido Loori in 1980, it includes the following branches:
Cybermonk is a senior monastic available through e-mail to answer questions about Zen practice and training at the monastery. To send a message to Cybermonk, email cybermonk@mro.org.
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