Tendai Buddhism USA

Dai Sojo Ryokan Ara and Mrs.Ara with grand deshi Eikai san and Eikan san, 2017.

Tokudo celebration dinner, 2016

Rev. Jiei, Eishin and Eisyo san receive the new priest juzu, wagesa, and taishu kaju from Enryakuji Hieizan.

At the Hawaii Betsuin, Honolulu

At the Hawaii Betsuin temple

Gyosho Uehara Sensei prepares to do goma service at annual fall ceremony at Sekizan-Zenin, Kyoto, Japan.

Tokudo, 2014.

Main image of California Tendai Monastery, carved by Keisho VK Leary.

Performing goma at the opening of the California Tendai Monastery

After the Mt.Cobb Fire

Goma-do after the Mt.Cobb Fire

with new priests at the Pearl Harbor Memorial

Eijyo san with Rev. Watanabe of Jyodo Shinsyu Sydney branch and Mr. Yoshiski Matsunaga, the head of Sydney branch office of Urasanke

looking out over the mountains during han-ichi kaihogyo

2017, Rev.Eijyo at Cowra Memorial Service

Sacramento Federal Building

Abbot of Tendai Hawaii Betsuin

Rev.Eikai and Rev.Eikan do meditation near the ocean, focusing on the sound of waves and breath.

A visit from Japanese priests to the Hawaii Betsuin in 2017

A visit to a Jodo Shin Shu Temple

The goma dan of the California Tendai Monastery remains after being reduced to ashes in the Lake County Fire, 2015

The head of the Tendai-shu denomination performs a ceremony and Nishihonganji main temple of the Jodo-Shinshu denomination.

Rev.Eishin & Rev.Ryoei Tyler isiting a Kwan Yin shrine in Honolulu

Kannon Bosatsu, embodiment of compassion

Sacred fire ceremony for peace and wisdom to flourish

Head of the Tendai-Shugendo lineage

President of the former California Tendai Monastery

Front row, left-to-right are: Tendai Assembly Chairman Ven. Kayaki Kansho-sama; Keisho; Ven. Uehara Gyosho-sama, the 'Marathon Monk' veteran who performed the initial fire offering. In the 2nd row from the left: Ven. Sono-sama, representing the connection between Mt Hiei's Enryaku-ji head temple and all Tendai units outside of Japan; Ven. Shibayama Hokai, the great artist and calligrapher.

Yakushi Nyorai (Medicine Buddha) Altar

Memorial room for the ashes of those who are deceased. Sutras are recited here for their benefit & memory.

Sacred fire ritual prayer for the flourishing of peace & wisdom.

Thousand Arm Avalokiteshvara

Dai Sojo Ryokan Ara and Mrs.Ara with grand deshi Eikai san and Eikan san, 2017.

Tokudo celebration dinner, 2016

Rev. Jiei, Eishin and Eisyo san receive the new priest juzu, wagesa, and taishu kaju from Enryakuji Hieizan.

At the Hawaii Betsuin, Honolulu

At the Hawaii Betsuin temple

Gyosho Uehara Sensei prepares to do goma service at annual fall ceremony at Sekizan-Zenin, Kyoto, Japan.

Tokudo, 2014.

Main image of California Tendai Monastery, carved by Keisho VK Leary.

Performing goma at the opening of the California Tendai Monastery

After the Mt.Cobb Fire

Goma-do after the Mt.Cobb Fire

with new priests at the Pearl Harbor Memorial

Eijyo san with Rev. Watanabe of Jyodo Shinsyu Sydney branch and Mr. Yoshiski Matsunaga, the head of Sydney branch office of Urasanke

looking out over the mountains during han-ichi kaihogyo

2017, Rev.Eijyo at Cowra Memorial Service

Sacramento Federal Building

Abbot of Tendai Hawaii Betsuin

Rev.Eikai and Rev.Eikan do meditation near the ocean, focusing on the sound of waves and breath.

A visit from Japanese priests to the Hawaii Betsuin in 2017

A visit to a Jodo Shin Shu Temple

The goma dan of the California Tendai Monastery remains after being reduced to ashes in the Lake County Fire, 2015

The head of the Tendai-shu denomination performs a ceremony and Nishihonganji main temple of the Jodo-Shinshu denomination.

Rev.Eishin & Rev.Ryoei Tyler isiting a Kwan Yin shrine in Honolulu

Kannon Bosatsu, embodiment of compassion

Sacred fire ceremony for peace and wisdom to flourish

Head of the Tendai-Shugendo lineage

President of the former California Tendai Monastery

Front row, left-to-right are: Tendai Assembly Chairman Ven. Kayaki Kansho-sama; Keisho; Ven. Uehara Gyosho-sama, the 'Marathon Monk' veteran who performed the initial fire offering. In the 2nd row from the left: Ven. Sono-sama, representing the connection between Mt Hiei's Enryaku-ji head temple and all Tendai units outside of Japan; Ven. Shibayama Hokai, the great artist and calligrapher.

Yakushi Nyorai (Medicine Buddha) Altar

Memorial room for the ashes of those who are deceased. Sutras are recited here for their benefit & memory.

Sacred fire ritual prayer for the flourishing of peace & wisdom.

Thousand Arm Avalokiteshvara