Some Mauians got a taste of Zen Buddhism. Earlier this month, Naoko Moller, who was born in a Soto-Zen temple in Niigata, Japan, gave a course in Zen cooking to about 40 people in two sessions at the ...

The origins of Kaua‘i’s Soto Zen Buddhist Temple date back to McBryde Sugar Co.’s Wahiawa Camp in 1903, the year the Rev. Ryoun Kan arrived there to begin preaching Soto Zen Buddhism in Tsuneo Takai’s ...

As the morning swallowed up the remaining notes of the Kaua‘i Soto Zen Temple Zenshuji gongs on Peace Day, Mark Jeffers of The Storybook Theatre of Hawai‘i approached the World Peace Kannon statue ...

Mantokuji Soto Zen Mission of Paia will receive a Preservation Honor Award later this month for its work to restore its historic bell tower, the Historic Hawaii Foundation announced Monday. The 48th ...

Tanahashi, a translator (most significantly of Dogen, founder of the Soto Zen school), calligrapher, teacher, and peace activist, has rendered into English a selection of poems by Ryokan (1758-1831), ...

Here are four more pages from the upcoming graphic novel, "The Zen of Steve Jobs." The Forbes-written, JESS3-designed book re-imagines Steve's relationship with his friend and mentor, Kobun Chino ...

For about a year after Ruth Ozeki’s father died in 1998, she would hear him clearly calling her name while she washed the dishes or folded laundry. The award-winning author, filmmaker and Soto Zen ...

Fires snaked through ravines Wednesday in the Ventana Wilderness to within 3 miles of the oldest Soto Zen monastery outside of Asia, forcing the evacuation of firefighters and threatening the only ...

Des Moines' own Buddhist temple offers community members a chance for Zen and meditation through an array of practices available to everyone, irrespective of their spirituality. The Rev. Eishin Tom ...