The Many Faces of Dogen
Conference

Zen Mountain Monastery
July 8 -11, 2004

Program

This international gathering of lay and monastic practitioners will be the first Dogen conference solely sponsored by the American Buddhist community. America’s premier scholars and teachers of Dogen will present a historical perspective of Dogen’s life and explore his various works, with an eye to the relevance of these teachings to the modern practitioner. Interspersed with the talks and panel discussions will be readings of some of Dogen’s poetry in both Japanese and English.

It is hoped that the atmosphere will be both celebratory as well as informative. Opportunities will exist for persons not familiar with Dogen to experience first hand some aspects of his teachings such as Zazen, Liturgy and Oryoki.

The conference is sponsored by Zen Mountain Monastery and the Mountains and Rivers Order, supported in part by a grant from the Soto Zen Buddhist International Center.

Presenters include:

Prof. Paula Arai, Carleton College
Prof. Carl W. Bielefeldt, Stanford University
Prof. William Bodiford, UCLA
Prof. T. Griffith Foulk, Sarah Lawrence College
Prof. Steven Heine, Florida International University
Prof. T. James Kodera, Wellesley College
Rev. Taigen Leighton, San Francisco Zen Center
Prof. Miriam L. Levering, University of Tennessee
Rev. Shohaku Okumura, Sanshin Zen Community
Rev. John Daido Loori, Zen Mountain Monastery.

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