Kanja Odland Roshi is a
Zen
Zen ( zh, t=禪, p=Chán; ja, text= 禅, translit=zen; ko, text=선, translit=Seon; vi, text=Thiền) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty, known as the Chan School (''Chánzong'' 禪宗), and ...
Buddhist priest and teacher, in the lineage of Harada-Yasutani. She was born in Stockholm 1963.
She started her Zen training in 1984, as a student of both Roshi
Philip Kapleau
Philip Kapleau (August 20, 1912 – May 6, 2004) was an American teacher of Zen Buddhism in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition, a blending of Japanese Sōtō and Rinzai schools. He also advocated strongly for Buddhist vegetarianism.
Early life
Kapleau wa ...
and his successor Roshi
Bodhin Kjolhede
Bodhin Kjolhede (born 1948) is a Sōtō/Rinzai Zen Rōshi, roshi and Abbot of the Rochester Zen Center (RZC), a position he assumed when Philip Kapleau retired from teaching in 1986.Ford, 159 He was ordained as a priest in 1976 and received Dhar ...
. She was ordained as a priest in 1999. She also finished her koan training that year, and was given permission to teach by Roshi Kjolhede in 2001. She has been teaching full-time since then. Together with her co-teacher
Sante Poromaa
Sante Poromaa Roshi is a Zen Buddhist priest and teacher, in the lineage of Harada-Yasutani. He was born in 1958 in Kiruna, Sweden, and commenced his Zen training in the early eighties, as a student of Roshi Philip Kapleau. When Roshi Kapleau wen ...
Roshi, she has been instrumental in the creation of a full-time training temple in rural Sweden called Zengården, as well as the growth and development of a network of City Zen Centers in Sweden, Finland and Scotland. Odland offers regular
sesshin
A ''sesshin'' (接心, or also 摂心/攝心 literally "touching the heart-mind") is a period of intensive meditation (zazen) in a Zen monastery.
While the daily routine in the monastery requires the monks to meditate several hours a day, duri ...
(meditation retreats), in English and regularly gives public talks on Zen. Her first book, Vandring på Spårlös Stig, was published in 2013.
Notes
References
* https://web.archive.org/web/20110719235643/http://www.rzc.org/node/38/lineage
External links
www.zentraining.orgb
www.zazen.seb
www.zazen.fib
www.stockholmzencenter.seb
glasgowcloudwaterzen.orgb
www.lundzencenter.sewww.goteborgzencenter.se
Galleries
Zengården
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1963 births
Living people
Zen Buddhist priests
Zen Buddhist nuns
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