Olympia Zen Center

The Board of Olympia Zen Center is pleased to announce the visiting teacher for 2012 will be Shoen Tokunaga Sensei, a calligraphy master from Okayama, Japan, near Ryokan's training temple Entsuji, who will teach on Ryokan's art of calligraphy and demonstrate the art of the brush in a performance painting.  The date for the lecture and workshop will be

October 19 and 20, 2012.

The Annual Ryokan Lecture is an event to honor and promote the teachings of Priest/Poet Ryokan.  Each year an invited speaker offers teachings on various subjects related to a topic we might find in Ryokan's teachings.  The speaker is chosen by the board and is one whose life and teachings exemplify the qualities and values of Ryokan.

Past Ryokan Lecturers

Niho Tetsumei Roshi "Dedicating Gogoan"

Taigen Dan Leighton "Buddhist Archetypes"

Roko Sherry Chayat "Extending the Heart of Peace"

Hozan Alan Senauke "On the Teachings of Rev. M.L. King, Jr"

Chozen Bays "Jizos for Peace"

Daijaku Kinst and Shinshu Roberts "Spiritual Dynamics in Same Sex Relationships"

Mel Weitsman "Way-Seeking Mind"

Roshi Joan Halifax "Death and Dying"

Joseph Stroud "And What Did You Make of Your Life?"

David Loy "Healing Ecology: A Buddhist Perspective on the Eco-Crisis"