The origins of Kaua‘i’s Soto Zen Buddhist Temple date back to McBryde Sugar Co.’s Wahiawa Camp in 1903, the year the Rev. Ryoun Kan arrived there to begin preaching Soto Zen Buddhism in Tsuneo Takai’s ...

HANAPEPE — Bon dance festivities move to the Kaua‘i Soto Zen Temple in Hanapepe on Friday and Saturday, said Gerald “Jerry” Hirata, president of the Kaua‘i Soto Zen Temple. The service is free, and ...

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.

For her, it is one part of the larger tradition of Soto Zen Buddhism. "I appreciate that people are more interested in their well-being," Bono says. "The more people that take a good look at how they ...