Zen Mountain Monastery
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| Location | P.O. Box 197 Mount Tremper, New York 12457 |
| Affiliation | Mountains and Rivers Order (Zen) |
| Country | United States |
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| Location | S. Plank Rd. (Old Co. Rt 28) at jct. with Miller Rd., Shandaken, Mt. Tremper, New York |
| Coordinates | 42°2′56″N 74°16′21″W / 42.04889°N 74.27250°WCoordinates: 42°2′56″N 74°16′21″W / 42.04889°N 74.27250°W |
| Area | 235 acres (95 ha) |
| Built | 1935 |
| Architect | Haffner, V.L.S. |
| NRHP Reference # | 94001372 |
| Added to NRHP | November 25, 1994 |
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| Founder | John Daido Loori |
| Completed | 1980 |
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. From Loori's death in October 2009 until January 2015, Zen Mountain Monastery had two teachers: Geoffrey Shugen Arnold and Konrad Ryushin Marchaj, who received Dharma transmission from Loori in 1997 and 2009, respectively. Since January 2015, the training at the Monastery has been led by Shugen Sensei, assisted by Jody Hojin Kimmel, Osho, Ron Hogen Green and Vanessa Zuisei Goddard.
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.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
Students and residents of the monastery practice according to Daido Roshi'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.
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