Enso House Advisors
Priscilla DaiChi Storandt is an ordained Rinzai Zen practitioner who has a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Ithaca College in New York. In 1972 she moved to Japan to study pottery and zazen, and in 1973 she became the student of Zen Master Yamada Mumon and began traditional Zen training. Since 1982 she has lived at Sogeni Monastery in Okayama, Japan assisting Shodo Harada Roshi with the administration and training of an international community of students. She serves as Harada Roshi’s primary translator, and assists him on trips abroad. She has translated his two published books, Morning Dewdrops of the Mind, and The Path to Bodhidharma. She continues to practice pottery.
Shodo Harada Roshi is a graduate of Hanazono Buddhist College in Kyoto, Japan, and he subsequently trained for twenty years at Shofukuji temple in Kobe. He is a dharma heir of Mumon Yamada Roshi (1900 – 1988), one of the great Rinzai Zen Masters of the twentieth century. After completing his training with Yamada Roshi, he became Abbot of Sogenji temple in Okayama, Japan. Since 1982, the monastery has provided a unique place for lay and ordained men and women of all ages and from all countries to practice traditional Zen monastic training. In 1989, the monastery’s activities widened to include teaching abroad, and there are now associated practice centers in the United States, Europe, Eastern Europe and India.
Tahoma One Drop Zen Monastery was begun on Whidbey Island, Washington in 1995. It is Harada Roshi’s vision that the daily practice of the Tahoma monastic community supports the work of Enso House, a spiritually oriented hospice home located on property next to the monastery, while the work of caring for the dying at Enso House deepens the practice of caregivers from Tahoma and the community.
Harada Roshi is the author of two books published in English on Zen training, Morning Dewdrops of the Mind, and The Path to Bodhidharma.