Zen Mountain Monastery

Zen Mountain Monastery

Location within New York
Monastery information
Order	Mountains and Rivers Order (Zen)
Established	1980
People
Founder(s)	John Daido Loori[1]
Abbot	Geoffrey Shugen Arnold[1]
Prior	Jody Hojin Kimmel [1]
Architecture
Status	Active
Functional status	Operational
Heritage designation	National Register of Historic Places (Designated 1994) [2]
Site
Location	Mount Tremper, New York
Country	United States
Coordinates	42°2′56″N 74°16′21″W / 42.04889°N 74.27250°W / 42.04889; -74.27250
Public access	yes [3]
Website	Zen Mountain Monastery

Zen Mountain Monastery (or, Doshinji, meaning Temple of the Way of Reality) is a Zen Buddhist monastery and training center on a 220-acre (0.89 km²)^[4] forested property in the Catskill Mountains in Mount Tremper, New York. It was founded in 1980 by John Daido Loori originally as the Zen Arts Center. It combines the Rinzai and Sōtō Zen traditions, in both of which Loori received Dharma transmission. Loori's first dharma heir was Bonnie Myotai Treace, Sensei, who received shiho, or dharma transmission, from him in 1996. From Loori's death in October 2009 until January 2015, Zen Mountain Monastery had two teachers: Geoffrey Shugen Arnold and Konrad Ryushin Marchaj, who received Dharma transmission from Loori in 1997 and 2009, respectively. Since January 2015, the training at the Monastery has been led by Shugen Roshi, assisted by Ron Hogen Green, Sensei; Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei; and Vanessa Zuisei Goddard, Sensei (currently on leave).