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The Rochester Zen Center (RZC) is a Sōtō and Rinzai Zen Buddhist sangha in the Kapleau lineage, located in Rochester, New York and established in 1966 by Philip Kapleau. It is one of the oldest Zen centers in the United States. ==History== The history of the Rochester Zen Center begins with the Nuremberg and Tokyo War Crimes Trials at the close of World War II. Trying to come to grips with the appalling testimony he heard as a court reporter, thirty-three-year-old Philip Kapleau began a spiritual search that would lead him to a Japanese Zen Buddhist monastery in 1953. His experiences there became the basis of his classic book, The Three Pillars of Zen, still in print forty years after its initial publication. As of October 8, 2010, it was the ranked 7th in books on Zen Buddhism on Amazon.com. One of the earliest readers of the book was a Batavia resident named Ralph Chapin, who saw the galley proofs while visiting Japan and asked that ten copies be sent him when the book was published. When they arrived, he passed one on to his Rochester friends Chester Carlson and his wife Dorris.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Buddhist Masters and Their Organisations: Philip Kapleau Roshi )〕 The Center's first ''sesshin'' took place in October, and the first issue of its newsletter, ''Zen Bow'', appeared in 1967. Since its founding, the Rochester Zen Center has become one of the largest Buddhist centers in North America.〔Farrier-Halls, 150〕 From those first twenty-two individuals, membership has grown to more than six hundred, with sitting groups and affiliate centers in Mexico and Germany, and throughout the U.S. In 1981 Rochester Zen Center community split, when Toni Packer left the Center. Through its daily meditation services, residential training programs, and introductory workshops, the Center has helped introduce Buddhism into the American mainstream, while simultaneously reshaping and integrating the forms of Zen into America's own unique culture. The Rochester Zen Center has also contributed to the intellectual development of American Zen, through Philip Kapleau's books, ''The Zen of Living and Dying'', ''Zen Merging of East and West'', ''To Cherish All Life'', and the recent ''Awakening to Zen'' and the writings of its members and its decennial anniversary conferences. In 1986, the 20th Anniversary Conference focused on "Buddhism and Nonviolence," and the 1996 Thirtieth Anniversary explored "Buddhism in America." Since 1986 the head abbot at Rochester Zen Center has been Bodhin Kjolhede, who was sanctioned to teach by Kapleau.〔Kraft, 190〕 The community offers intensive Zen sesshin retreats, introductory workshops and training programs throughout the year and is open to guests.〔Ford, 759〕 File:RZC Zendo 1.JPG File:RZC Library.JPG File:Rochester Zen Center garden facing universal buddha.JPG File:Rochester Zen Center fall buddha07.jpg File:RZC front Sign.JPG 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rochester Zen Center」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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