Buddhist teacher Joshu Sasaki Roshi, a leading figure in Zen Buddhism in America whose legacy was later complicated by allegations of sexual abuse, has died. He was 107. Roshi died Sunday ...

Roshi Wendy Egyoku Nakao, abbot of Zen Center of Los Angeles: “He immediately starts a bakery, and that created a huge mess because people didn’t want to work night and day.

Joshu Sasaki Roshi, shown in 2012, when he was 105 and celebrating his 50th anniversary at Rinzai-ji Zen Center in Los Angeles. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times) ...

Eido Shimano, the Japanese Zen Buddhist monk whose exploitative relationships with female followers over a fifty-year period were to tear apart the American Buddhist community, arrived in the ...

In 1973, Kwong-roshi and Shinko decided to establish a Zen community by transforming an old barn into Genjo-ji Temple (translated as “manifesting everyday activity”), more commonly known as ...

Seido Suzuki Roshi, an abbott of Toshoji Monastery, brings an "Infusion of Zen" exhibit to the former Fifth Element record store.

Over the years, Sasaki Roshi taught internationally and developed a network of about 30 affiliated Zen centers throughout the U.S. At 101, he was still vital, said Robert Buswell, a UCLA professor ...

Roshi Wendy Egyoku Nakao, abbot of Zen Center of Los Angeles: “He immediately starts a bakery, and that created a huge mess because people didn’t want to work night and day.

Roshi Wendy Egyoku Nakao, abbot of Zen Center of Los Angeles: “He immediately starts a bakery, and that created a huge mess because people didn’t want to work night and day.