Minnesota Zen Center

Minnesota Zen Meditation Center

The center faces Lake Calhoun
Basic information
Location 3343 East Calhoun Parkway, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55408
Affiliation Sōtō Zen Buddhism
Country United States
Website http://mnzencenter.org
Architectural description
Founder Dainin Katagiri
Completed 1972

Minnesota Zen Meditation Center was formed when the founding head teacher, Dainin Katagiri, (1928-1990) was invited to come from California in 1972 to teach a small but growing group of Minneapolis students interested in the dharma.[1] After his death, Shohaku Okumura served as interim head teacher until the installation of Karen Sunna, who had studied with Katagiri Roshi until his death.[2] Succeeding Karen as head priest is Tim Burkett, a long time student of both Katagiri and Suzuki Roshi. Tim became the head teacher on November 1, 2002.[1]

Natalie Goldberg studied at the Center for over a dozen years and writes extensively about it in her books Long Quiet Highway and The Great Failure.[3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "About MZMC". Minnesota Zen Center. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
  2. ↑ Ford, James Ishmael (2006). Zen Master Who?: A Guide to the People and Stories of Zen. Wisdom Publications. p. 135. ISBN 978-086171509-1.
  3. ↑ "Lineage Delusions Revisited a Year Later: Dharma Transmission, Denial, and American Zen". Sweeping Zen. March 15, 2012. Retrieved April 1, 2015.

Coordinates: 44°56′31″N 93°18′12″W / 44.941946°N 93.303285°W / 44.941946; -93.303285


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