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Bodhin Kjolhede
Title	Roshi
Personal life
Born	1948 (age 77–78) Michigan
Education	University of Michigan
Website	www.rzc.org chapinmill.org
Religious life
Religion	Zen Buddhism
School	Rochester Zen Center
Lineage	Philip Kapleau
Senior posting
Based in	Rochester Zen Center Chapin Mill Buddhist Retreat Center
Predecessor	Philip Kapleau
Successor	Donna Kowal John Pulleyn
Students Gerardo Gally Robert Goldmann Donna Kowal Kanja Odland Sante Poromaa John Pulleyn Sevan Ross Rick Smith Richard von Sturmer Amala Wrightson

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. He founded the “Cloud-Water Sangha”, an international community of Zen centers led by teachers in his lineage.

Zen training

Kjolhede 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. He has additionally been offered transmission in a Sōtō lineage, but has thus far chosen to decline.

Lineage

Kjolhede has authorized ten of his disciples as teachers, some of whom are independent teachers with their own dharma successors:

• Gerardo Gally
• Robert Goldmann
• Donna Kowal
• Kanja Odland
• Sante Poromaa
• John Pulleyn
• Sevan Ross
• Rick Smith
• Richard von Sturmer
• Amala Wrightson

Cloud-Water Sangha

The Cloud-Water Sangha is formed of centers led by Kjolhede's students and their disciples:

• Auckland Zen Centre (New Zealand)
• Berliner Zen-Gruppe (Germany)
• Casa Zen Mexico (Mexico)
• Cleveland Zazen Group (USA)
• Louisville Zen Center (USA)
• Madison Zen Center (USA)
• Rochester Zen Center (USA)
• Zenbuddhistiska Samfundet (Sweden, Finland, Germany, UK)

The name of the sangha is a translation of the Japanese term unsui.

See also

• Buddhism in the United States
• Buddhism in the West
• Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States

Galleries

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References

• Baggott, Andy (2005). Living the Zen Arts: Meditation, Martial Arts, Calligraphy, Flower Arranging, the Art of Tea. Godsfield. ISBN 1-84181-265-X. OCLC 61529032.
• Ford, James Ishmael (2006). Zen Master Who?: A Guide to the People and Stories of Zen. Wisdom Publications. ISBN 0-86171-509-8.
• McDaniel, Richard Bryan (2015). Cypress trees in the garden : the second generation of Zen teaching in North America. Sumeru Press. ISBN 9781896559261. OCLC 931721846.

External links

• Harada Sogaku, Kuroda-Osaka-Maezumi & Harada-Yasutani Schools of Zen Buddhism and their Teachers (with elements of descriptive statistics)