Events Christianity's Lessons for Zen Practice in the West

Thomas Yuho Kirchner, born in 1949, came to Japan in 1969 to study at Waseda University. He subsequently spent ten years in Zen monastic training at Shofuku-ji in Kobe, Kencho-ji in Kamakura, and Kennin-ji in Kyoto. Later, after graduate studies in Buddhism at Otani University, he worked at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture (1992-1998) and the International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism (1998-present). His publications include The Record of Linji (2008), Entangling Vines (2013), Dialogues in a Dream (2015), and Dahui's Letters (2024).