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Gesshin Claire Greenwood (1986-)
Dharma name: 月心 Gesshin
Gesshin is an ordained priest in the Soto Zen tradition. She trained in Japan at Toshoji and Aichi Senmon Nisodo for four and a half years before returning to the United States and completing Zuise. She is now affiliated with the Empty Moon Zen Sangha. She has a master’s degree in East Asian Studies from the University of Southern California, where she focused on medieval Soto Zen convents with a postcolonial feminist frame, and a second master’s degree in Counseling Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. In her writing and therapeutic work, she brings together her experience with feminism, religion, spirituality and mental health to serve the needs of young women and LGBTQ clients.
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https://zenmischief.com/2018/06/book-review-bow-first-ask-questions-later/
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/monkeymind/2018/04/bow-first-ask-questions-later-a-review-of-a-new-book-on-zen-training-the-zen-life.html
https://www.lionsroar.com/enlightenment-is-a-male-fantasy/
Ryōnen, Dōgen's First Female Disciple
by Gesshin Claire Greenwood
A Lineage of Their Own: Women in Medieval Sōtō Zen
by Gesshin Claire Greenwood
University of Southern California. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2018.
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My parents are Vipassana practitioners at Spirit Rock, so Buddhism and meditation has been in the background of my consciousness since I was in high school. In college I was lucky enough to study abroad in Bodh Gaya, India, where the Buddha was enlightened, and temporarily ordain there in the Burmese tradition. After college I realized I wanted to do was practice the dharma, so I went to Japan, where I’d heard there was a monastery that took foreigners and women. I eventually ordained there in the Soto Zen tradition with Seido Suzuki Roshi and trained at Toshoji and Aichi Senmon Nisodo, a women’s monastery, for a total of around five years. My final year in Japan I spent studying Japanese language at Nanzan University. After that I moved back to the United States and went to graduate school at USC. I wrote my thesis on medieval Japanese Soto Zen convents, particularly the communities around Keizan at Entsuin, as well as Dogen’s disciple Ryonen and the previously unstudied Jodo Daishi.
What we do know conclusively is that Dōgen did not establish any convents. Kangan Giin established the first Sōtō Zen convent, called Hooji, on Kyushu around the year 1260. A 1990 archeological study has also revealed that Giin founded Hooji with another monastic named "Jodo Daishi" (成道大師) who was probably a nun disciple named Hoe. Keizan Zenji (1268-1325) also has the first recorded dharma transmission to a woman, the nun Ēkyu. He established a special practice space for women at Yokoji called Entsu-in. The nun Sōnin, a major donor of Yokoji, was the first abbess of Entsu-in. She and other female family members contributed substantial land donations to Yokoji, after which Keizan installed her as a leader of that practice space.
PDF: Bow First, Ask Questions Later: Ordination, Love and Monastic Zen in Japan
by Gesshin Claire Greenwood
New World Library, 2019
PDF: Just Enough: Vegan Recipes and Stories from Japan’s Buddhist Temples
by Gesshin Claire Greenwood
ill. by Seigaku D. Amato
Novato, California, 2019
Seidō Suzuki is the abbot of Funakizan Tōshōji and Unsenji, both in Okayama, Japan.
He trained at Eiheiji and Zuioji and spent two years at Zen Mountain Monastery in New York.
https://ancientwayjournal.wordpress.com/2015/11/14/living-in-the-sodo/
GESSHIN CLAIRE GREENWOOD was born and raised in San Francisco. The
child of American Buddhists, she studied abroad in Bodh Gaya, India,
where she received temporary ordination in the Burmese Theravada
lineage. She spent the majority of her twenties in India and Japan practicing
Buddhism, ordaining with Seido Suzuki Roshi in 2010. She received
dharma transmission from Suzuki Roshi in 2015, then completed zuise in
2017, granting her the title of “osho,” or teacher, within the Soto Zen school.
Entering Nisodo, 2011
