Dai Bai Zan Cho Bo Zen Ji (Japanese: 大梅山 聴法禅寺) is a Rinzai-style Zen temple located on North Beacon Hill in Seattle, Washington. Its name translates from Japanese as "Listening to the Dharma Zen Temple on Great Plum Mountain."
History, lineage, and teachers
Dai Bai Zan Cho Bo Zen Ji was founded by Zen Master Genki Takabayashi[1][2] in 1983. Genjo Marinello Oshō succeeded Genki Rōshi in 1999 as the second abbot of Chobo-ji.
Genki Takabayashi
Genki Takabayashi Rōshi was invited by the Seattle Zen Center (founded by Dr. Glenn Webb, at the time a University of Washington Art History professor) to become the resident teacher in the fall of 1978. He accepted, and by 1983 founded Cho Bo Zen Ji. In Japan, he trained for nearly twenty years at Daitoku-ji, one of two parent Rinzai school temples. Takabayashi also directed a Rinzai temple in Kamakura. He became a monk at age 11. In 1997, Takabayashi retired and moved to Montana. Genki died on February 25, 2013, at his home in Montana, at the age of 81.
Marinello is a licensed psychotherapist,[5] a member of the interfaith organization Spiritual Directors International[6]), and of the American Zen Teachers Association.[7]
Marinello has served as an adjunct faculty member of Antioch University Seattle. He has volunteered as a Buddhist pastor for the Washington State Department of Corrections, been a meditation instructor for Birankai International (Aikido association)[8] and has worked with the Seattle Church Council as part of an interfaith trauma response team[9]).
