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Shodo Harada, Roshi

Maezumi Roshi with his Mother  

1940 –

Honorary founder of Great Vow Zen Monastery, and the current teacher of Chozen & Hogen Bays.

Shodo Harada Roshi was born in 1940 in Nara , Japan . He began his Zen training in 1962 when he entered Shofuku-ji monastery in Kobe, Japan, where he trained under Yamada Mumon Roshi for twenty years. He was then given dharma transmission (inka) and was subsequently made abbot of Sogen-ji monastery in Okayama, Japan where he has taught continuously since 1982. Read more...

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