"A Report on Lay Dharma Transmission in North American Sōtō Zen"

by Danny Fisher

Over at his blog Monkey Mind, our friend and past interviewee James Ishmael Ford posts a report he co-authored with Taitaku Pat Phelan and Elihu Genmyo Smith entitled “A Report on Lay Dharma Transmission in North American Sōtō Zen”. As James notes, the report has not been widely distributed, but is nonetheless “an important reflection on an interesting and compelling aspect of the development of Western Zen” that should be read. Take a look.