Special Guest Teacher Dharma Talk: Rev. Yuko Yamada-sensei (Online)

Yuko Wakayama Yamada-sensei will be giving a lecture on The Denkoroku - the record of transmitting the light by Keizan Zenji. The Denkoroku documents the great enlightenment of Shakyamuni Buddha and its transmission by fifty-two patriarchs in India, China and Japan. This Zen text created by Keizan Zenji is the most revered record of transmitted instructions in learning the Way.

Yuko Wakayama Yamada-sensei is the vice abbess of Shogakuji in Tokyo. She currently teaches at the International department of Eiheiji. She is the first nun to teach at Eiheiji, the head monastery of Soto Zen founded by Dogen Zenji.  She trained at Aichi Senmon Niso-do, a training temple for female Soto Zen priests, where she also currently teaches. She was ordained in 1999 by the highly respected Rev. Shundo Aoyama-roshi. She was sent to Mt. Equity Zendo in the United States for 2.5 years and has also practiced in Germany, Switzerland, France, Spain and Italy. After returning from Europe and finishing 2 more years at the Niso-do, she studied at Komazawa University specializing in Chinese Zen History. Prior to becoming a Zen Buddhist nun, Yuko Yamada was a catholic nun in a convent for 3 years.