Sotekizan Korinzenji

So'tekizan Korinzenji (祖的山光林禅寺), Korinji for short, is a Rinzai Zen Buddhist monastery (sodo) in the Upper Midwest region of the United States near Madison, Wisconsin. The Korinji Foundation, a not-for-profit charitable organization, was founded in 2005 to fund Korinji's construction and to support its future residents. 17 acres (69,000 m²) of forested land were purchased by the Foundation for this purpose in 2008.

According to the Korinji website, groundbreaking occurred in June, 2009 and Korinji was officially dedicated as a Rinzai-lineage monastery on November 3, 2013, with the completion of its zendo. , a student of the Rinzai Zen teachers Tenzan Toyoda Rokoji, Dogen Hosokawa Roshi, and So'zan Miller Roshi, has been installed as the first abbot; these teachers all carry the lineage of Omori Sogen Roshi, a well-known Japanese Zen master who was a successor of the Tenryu-ji line of Zen. In March 2018 monastery residential quarters were completed and the first period of formal monastic training began.

Korinji serves as the headquarters and spiritual center of a larger association of Zen practice groups called , with the nearby being its primary branch. Other branches are located throughout N. America and in Europe. The monastery also houses Korinji Shugen Dojo, a Shugendo training center affiliated with the tradition of Shugendo.

See also[]

• Buddhism in the United States
• Glossary of Japanese Buddhism
• Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States

External links[]

• Korinji Monastery
• Meido Moore Bio via Shambala Publications

Coordinates: 43°37′47″N 90°00′38″W / 43.62972°N 90.01056°W / 43.62972; -90.01056

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