January/February 1970 issue of Bow

The Three Pillars of Zen is published. THE FIRST YEARS 1953 August 28 & 29, 1970 PK sells his court reporting business and Dedication ceremony after the post-fire renovation. sails to Japan for long-term Zen training.

July 1968 January 1970 With funding provided by Chester and Dorris Carlson, 7 Arnold Park is purchased from the Morse Lumber family. 35-40 people a day working at 7AP. About October 1968 a third arrived during the past month and Fire at 7 Arnold Park guts the building. aren’t yet members.

PK accepts invitation from Audrey Fernandez, Dorris Carlson, and other members of a local Vendanta-leaning group to move to Rochester, founding the Zen Meditation Center of Rochester, 1968 1947 The Washington Post May 1970 October 1971 Date: Jul 1, 1964 located at 10 Buckingham Street. 1967 Sesshins held at the homes of the McCorkles PK returns to the US from Japan and Toronto Zen Centre, Rochester’s first affiliate April 1969 Trustees’ minutes note objections to Art sale at Arnold Park of works donated to benefit the continues his court reporting business while TOKYO, June 30--An American judicial ofcial during the occupation and the Temples. landscaping from “younger members” who era here has become the first foreigner to be ordained as a Zen priest group, founded. 1968 Poet Allen Ginsberg visits the Zen Center country land development fund. attending D.T. Suzuki’s seminars on Zen at and chants the Center’s translation of the feel time would be better spent doing . 1972 PK at home in Kamakura with his wife deLancey in Japan, it was learned today. He was , 51, who returned First training program, held at Buckingham Street, with 1969 Columbia University. to Japan in 1953 to take Zen training. Prajna Paramita Hridaya in his Annual picnic held at the Gratwick place. and daughter Rama (now Sudarshana). three full-time “monastics” and three “semi-monastics.” First 7-day sesshin, held at Bill and Harriet public readings. Gratwick’s 350-acre farm estate.

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Philip Kapleau Peter (Bodhin) Kjolhede born August 20,1912 born April 16,1948 New Haven, CT Rochester, MI 1970 1969 PK leads a short pilgrimage to India July 1972 Zen Center Board meeting minutes: The board feels that 4 “girls” are April 1969 and Japan, accompanied by Hugh Parents’ Weekend needed on staff to handle office and kitchen work, and provides for 3 First Buddha’s Birthday celebration. “summer monastic” positions and 1 “permanent staff monastic” position, all Curran, Pat Simons, and Bob Knebel. 1945 1946 for women. They receive a $50 per month allowance to rent rooms off site, 1970 Philip Kapleau (PK) is Chief Allied Court PK is Court Reporter for plus free sesshin (if accepted). House at 64-66 Meigs Street (next block Reporter for the first of the Nuremberg Trials. Tokyo War Crimes Trials. over from Arnold Park) purchased to 1970 house overflow of staff. American-style “takuhatsu” (silently and mindfully picking up trash in the neighborhood) introduced. December 6, 1995 First sesshin held at Buckingham Street (20 participants). Audrey Fernandez, a charter member and President of the Center, translates into English the first chanting adaptation of the Prajna Paramita Hridaya, which is then published in the first issue of Zen Bow. Chester Carlson (1906 - 1968) Founding member of the Zen Ralph Chapin visits PK in Japan and sees galley proofs of The Center dies at age 62. Three Pillars of Zen. He orders 20 copies of the book and October 9-12, 1966 shares them with a local Rochester spiritual group. First sesshin, held at Presbyterian Retreat Center, outside Painted Post, NY, after Buckingham Street house was deemed too small. PK and Yasutani Roshi emerge having broken their teacher-student relationship over mounting issues, including PK insisting on the Prajna Paramita being chanted in English.

, Tuesday, April 29, 1947 Tuesday, , Sedalia, Missouri July 1967 In a disagreement over the balance of power 1969 , Rochester, NY, Wednesday, NY, Democrat and Chronicle , Rochester, Sogen Roshi, a friend of PK’s from Okinawa, visits and teaches staff between PK and the Board of Directors, half of the Andy Schlageter hired as “guiding The Zen Center buys property in Honeoye, NY, and in the carpenter” at $6 per hour. members the traditional Rinzai Zen drum and other instrumentation. board members, including Dorris Carlson, resign. spring builds two 23-foot geodesic domes and installs 20 1970 Sedalia Democrat members on-site to live, sit, and work on the land. “ Dialogues” introduced.

Inaugural issue of Zen Bow.

1969 Summer “Monastic Program.”