Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-ji

The Zen Studies Society is a Buddhist community dedicated to realizing and actualizing our true nature. With a history dating back to 1956, it is one of the oldest Zen Buddhist organizations in the United States. The society offers teachings and practice of Zen Buddhism at their mountain monastery, Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-ji, located in Livingston Manor, NY, and their city temple, New York Zendo Shobo-ji, situated in the heart of Manhattan. They provide traditional residential monastic training periods, retreats, weekly zazen schedules, all-day sits, and weekend sesshins for serious lay and ordained Zen students of all religious and cultural backgrounds.

At Dai Bosatsu Zendo, nestled on 1,400 acres of forest and meadows in the Catskill Mountains Preserve, Zen students have the opportunity to engage in deep introspective inquiry and actualize realization and understanding. New York Zendo, on the other hand, offers city dwellers the chance to experience traditional Zen practice amidst their daily lives, providing daily zazen and chanting services, monthly all-day sits, and weekend sesshins with teisho, dokusan, Dharma talks, and practice interviews. The Zen Studies Society welcomes participation, efforts, and donations to co-create sangha and impact the time and space in which we live.

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