Egely Kloster - TaikyoJi

Sesshin April 3-11 2010.
From Saturday April 3 at 4 PM until Sunday April 11 at 11 AM we will conduct sesshin in Egely Monastery.
Here is a unique chance to deepen your practice with among other things three times daily dokusan with a recognized Rinzai zen Master, Teisho, many hours of zazen.

Please fill out the application senest d. 21. marts 2010. no later than March 21 2010.

The weekend will start with basic introduction to buddhism, Rinzai zen buddhism, zen meditation and zen practice. Informal discussion and q&a will be possible. Instruction in zazen meditation will follow and both days we will meditate together. Denko will end the program Sunday with a talk based on a zen buddhist text.

Because of the short notice the price will be only Dkr 460 this time.
Signup no later than March 15 via contact page

Program for Egely Monastery - Taikyoji for 2010

Unless there is sesshin the monastery will be open for zazen every Tuesday & Thursday at 19-20:35 as well as Saturday mornings 9-12 for Service, zazen, dharma talk/discussion and tea!

February 13: Parinirvana all day zazen.
February 14: RZBS annual general meeting.

Marts 19-21: Tendai/Zen joint retreat. If it should be cancelled there will be intro weekend instead.

April 3-11: Sesshin, incl Buddha's birthday & Rinzai day

April 30 - May 23: Open monastery period

April 30 - May 2: Intro-weekend

June 28 - August 3: Kessei

July 1-4: Sesshin

July 17-18: Intro-weekend

July 24-31: Sesshin

Fall program to be determined later.

It looks like we are snowed in, and you are snowed out.

Zazen meeting tonight, January 7, is therefore cancelled

We hope to open again Saturday.

Each Saturday at 9-12 for the rest of 2009 (with the exception of Saturdays during sesshin or intro-courses), there will be one period of zazen followed by Dharma Talk and informal tea. Please arrive at least 5 minutes before the start of zazen.

We, Rinzai Zen Buddhist Society (former Skandinavisk Zen Center), have - as expected - been approved as a religious society by the Danish tax authority. This means that gifts, dana (and monthly donations), to RZBS - and thereby the monastery - are tax-deducible for citizens of the EU (as far as I understand. We will investigate how) from January 1, 2009 (yes, this year).

If you open a log on account AND fill out the page with member info (accessible only if you are logged in), you will be given access to our member's site within 48 hours.

You will be able to comment on blog entries and chat.

In order to get full access to member pages we ask you to create an account on this site and then fill out the page with member info (only visible if logged in). You will then be a member of Egely Monastery-TaikyoJi as well as Rinzai Zen Buddhist Society (of Denmark).

Access will be granted within 48 hrs.

Application form for kessei, sesshin and longer stay is now ready:

application