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Over the last twenty years, since the founding of the Mokusan Dojo in Madrid (1994) there have been many interviews and reports that have made us in the Spanish media. During the autumn of 2016 we received journalists from Canal Extremadura TV and the newspapers Hoy and El Comercio. In November, the Extremadura TV Channel visited Shorinji and interviewed our Master, publishing the report on the Extra-Tarde program on November 18. The other media in Extremadura echoed the program and we received the visit of the journalists during the first week of December,…Read [+]

Through a well-documented and extensive article, our Sangha mate , journalist and writer Luis Landeira, publishes in Jot Down Magazine the experience of Leonard Cohen as a zen monk. After a musical tour that left him exhausted, in 1994 Leonard Cohen, practicing since the early 70's, decided to retire to the Mount Baldy Zen Center in Los Angeles, directed by Master Joshua Sasaki. For two years, the poet and composer participated as any other member of the Sangha, doing zazen and combining it with the samu: cutting vegetables, fixing the garden or cleaning…Read [+]