The Zen Center of Syracuse (or, Syracuse Zen Center), temple name Hoen-ji, is a

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practice center in

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, one of the oldest continuously running Zen centers in the

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. Founded in 1972, the center is currently led by Shinge Roko Sherry Chayat Roshi .Wilson, 169 Originally at 111 Concord Place, the meditation hall is now located in the former

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at 266 West Seneca Turnpike and offers Zen practice for laypeople.Keenan, 30 Several clergy and practitioners live in a house next door and in the Joshua Forman house, where programs are also conducted. The Zen Center of Syracuse began as a group of

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s from

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, with Chayat eventually becoming the center's leader.Ford, 118 In addition to Zen practice, the center also provides some instruction in

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. According to ''The Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America'', "The Syracuse Zen Center also leads meditation at Syracuse University, Syracuse area schools, recovery and justice system institutions, hospitals and corporations." The center also won two awards for their restoration of The Forman House from the Preservation Association of

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. This house was instrumental during the

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and the

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, for it was a bandage assembly area for wounded troops.Forman & Zen

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