SHELBURNE — Tucked away down a rural Vermont road flanked by forest and farmland lies the two homes of Nōwa Randall: the Randolin Music Store and Vermont Zen Center. At Randolin, Randall makes, ...

Amid the chanting of sutras, the sounding of gongs and the curling smoke of burning incense. Chief Abbot Oda Sesso was ordaining a head priest for the Zen Buddhist temple of Daitokuji Ryosen-An in ...

Torrey • The silence was deafening. For several minutes, about 75 teachers and students of Zen Buddhism stood in meditation in the newly constructed temple surrounded by the redrock monoliths that ...

Burk will visit Powell's Books at the Cedar Hills Crossing at 7 p.m. on Feb. 6 to read from "Idiot's Guide to Zen Living," give a short talk and sign books. (Anna Marum/Beaverton Leader) At age 24, ...

As the third chime of a bell faded, a meditation session at Stone Mountain Zendo on Oct. 27 began. Sitting on "zafus," a type of mat, a small group of people faced the wall and meditated in silence.