Article on Los Angeles Times

Joshu Sasaki Roshi’s 50th Anniversary celebration was featured on the front page of the Los Angeles Times on September 21st, 2012. The article was written by Zenshin’s daughter, Kate Linthicum.

On July 21, 1962, Kyozan Joshu Roshi arrived in the United States to begin teaching in the West. On July 21, 2012, Rinzai-ji hosted a ceremony and celebration to honor the fifty-year treasure of that teaching.   A foretaste of the Anniversary celebration came on Tuesday, July 17, with the arrival of a delegation from