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| Brooklyn Zen Center | |
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| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Sōtō |
| Location | |
| Location | Boundless Mind Temple 326 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231 Ancestral Heart Temple 87 Kaye Road, Millerton, NY 12546 Millerton Zendo 1 John Street, Millerton, NY 12546 |
| Country | United States |
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| brooklynzen.org | |
Brooklyn Zen Center (BZC), is a community of affiliated Sōtō Zen practice and retreat centers in the New York City metropolitan area, comprising of Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY, and Ancestral Heart Temple and the Millerton Zendo, both in Millerton, NY. [1] [2]
Brooklyn Zen Center was founded in 2005 by Laura O’Loughlin, Gregory Snyder, and Ian Case.[3] BZC's founding teacher was Soshin Teah Strozer, who studied under Shunryū Suzuki, founder of the first Zen Buddhist monastery in the United States.[4]
Community, Classes, and Engaged Practice Groups
[edit]Brooklyn Zen Center is engaged in community programs throughout its bases New York City and Millerton.
In 2012, Brooklyn Zen Center, in partnership with High School students throughout the borough, offered a meditation after-school program in the neighborhood of Bushwick, which participants chose as an alternative to detention or suspension.[5]
In 2015, Rev. angel Kyodo williams and Lama Rod Owens hosted a series of talks on "Radical Dharma," a response to white supremacy led by American BIPOC Buddhist practitioners that emphasizes "an integration of the ways we are present or not to the issues of race, love, and liberation that shape our collective awakening."[6] One of these talks was hosted at BZC and was the partial genesis of williams's and Owens's 2016 book Radical Dharma.
BZC's sangha also offers educational classes and practice groups, which engage members of particular social identities as a container for practicing Boddhisatva Precepts. As of December 2023, these programs vary in online and in-person modalities:
- Undoing Whiteness as the Path of Liberation
- BIPOC Workshop: Sitting with Ancestors
- Beginner’s Mind
BZC's active Engaged Practice Groups consist of:
- Ancestral Moon: A BIPOC Zen Practice Group
- B-12: Buddhism and the 12 Steps of Recovery
- Parents Practice Group
- Queer Dharma Share[7]
- ^ "Locations". Brooklyn Zen Center. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
- ^ Doyle, Maud. The Millerton News. The Lakeville Journal https://tricornernews.com/millerton/zen-temple-opens-zendo.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Meade Sperry, Rod. "Open Hearts, Open Doors". Lion's Roar.
- ^ "Lineage". Brooklyn Zen Center. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
- ^ Gardiner, Aidan (15 April 2012). "Zen for High Schoolers: 'Notice the Anxiety. Notice the Fear.'". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
- ^ Williams, Rev. angel Kyodo; Owens, Lama Rod; Syedullah, Jasmine (14 June 2016). [chrome-extension://bdfcnmeidppjeaggnmidamkiddifkdib/viewer.html file=https://blackbooksdotpub.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/angel-kyodo-williams-lama-rod-owens-jasmine-syedullah-radical-dharma_-talking-race-love-and-liberation-north-atlantic-books-2016.pdf Radical Dharma Talking Race Love & Liberation] (PDF). North Atlantic Books. ISBN 9781623170981.
{{cite book}}: Check|url=value (help) - ^ "Offerings". Retrieved 1 November 2023.