Kanja Odland
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Kanja Odland | |
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| Title | Roshi |
| Personal | |
| Born | 1963 |
| Religion | Zen Buddhism |
| School | Sōtō and Rinzai |
| Lineage | Harada-Yasutani |
| Senior posting | |
| Based in | Zengården training temple Stockholm Zen Center |
| Predecessor | Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede |
| Website | www.zentraining.org |
Kanja Odland is a Roshi (Zen Buddhist teacher) in the tradition of Philip Kapleau.[1][2] She was born in Stockholm in 1963.[3] Together with her co-teacher Sante Poromaa Roshi, she has been described as the most senior Zen Buddhist teacher in Sweden.[4]
She started her Zen training in 1984, as a student of both Roshi Philip Kapleau and his successor Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. She was ordained as a priest in 1999 and also finished her koan training that year.[5] She is authorized as an independent teacher (Roshi) having received dharma transmission (inka) in the “Cloud-Water Sangha” lineage.[6]
Kanja Odland Roshi and Sante Poromaa Roshi jointly lead Zenbuddhistiska Samfundet[2] with centres in Sweden, Finland, Germany and the UK as well as a full-time training temple in rural Sweden called Zengården. They have sanctioned five of their students as Zen teachers: Karl Kaliski Sensei,[7] Sangen Salo Sensei,[8] Dharman Ödman Sensei,[9] Mitra Virtaperko Sensei[10] och Kansan Zetterberg Sensei. Zenbuddhistiska Samfundet has approximately 500 members[11] and is a member organisation in the Swedish Buddhist Community.[12]
Odland regularly offers regular sesshin (meditation retreats) in English and gives public talks on Zen. She is active in contemporary Swedish intellectual and cultural life.[1][13][14] Her first book Vandring på Spårlös Stig was published in 2013 and she has written various articles on Zen, including a commentary on mu published in Zen Bow magazine.[15]
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b "Separation är världens sjuka". DN.se (in Swedish). 26 May 2002. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
- ^ a b 2600 Years of Sambuddhatva: Global Journey of Awakening. Ministry of Buddhasasana and Religious Affairs, Government of Sri Lanka. 2011. ISBN 978-955-9349-33-4.
- ^ "Cloud Water Zen Centre / About us / Our Tradition". www.cloudwaterzen.org. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
- ^ "Sante Poromaa, zenbuddist". DN.se (in Swedish). 25 October 2009. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
- ^ "Zengården". www.zentraining.org. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ "Cloud-Water Sangha - Rochester Zen Center". Retrieved 4 November 2024.
- ^ "Cloud Water Zen Centre / About us / Our Tradition". www.cloudwaterzen.org. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
- ^ "Teacher Sangen Salo - Sanneji". 1 February 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
- ^ "Göteborg Zen Center". www.goteborgzencenter.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 4 November 2024.
- ^ "Uusi opettaja Tampereelle: Sensei Mitra Virtaperko! - Tampere Zen Center" (in Finnish). 4 November 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
- ^ Johansson, Stina (22 October 2018). "Stilla dig till ro med zenmeditation". Yoga för dig (in Swedish). Retrieved 5 November 2024.
- ^ "SBG medlemmar – Sveriges buddhistiska gemenskap" (in Swedish). Retrieved 5 November 2024.
- ^ Radio, Sveriges (2 February 2022). "Svensk meditation: en folkrörelse ofta utan andlighet - Människor och tro". sverigesradio.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "Kanja Odland". Sveriges Radio (in Swedish). 19 June 2008. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ Odland, Kanja (2013). Vandring på spårlös stig: en zenutövares anteckningar. Fellingsbro: Zendo. ISBN 978-91-977857-4-7.
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