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Bodhin Kjolhede
Bodhin Kjolhede (born 1948) is an American Sōtō/Rinzai Zen roshi and Abbot of the Rochester Zen Center (RZC), a position he assumed when Philip Kapleau retired from teaching in 1986.[1] He founded the “Cloud-Water Sangha”, an international community of Zen centers led by teachers in his lineage. Zen trainingKjolhede was ordained as a priest in 1976. In 1986 he was formally installed as Kapleau’s Dharma-successor and Abbot of the Rochester Zen Center.[2] He has additionally been offered transmission in a Sōtō lineage, but has thus far chosen to decline.[1][3] LineageKjolhede has authorized ten of his disciples as teachers, some of whom are independent teachers with their own dharma successors:
Cloud-Water SanghaThe Cloud-Water Sangha is formed of centers led by Kjolhede's students and their disciples:
The name of the sangha is a translation of the Japanese term unsui.[4] See alsoGalleriesChapin MillRZCNotesReferences
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