{"id":1432,"date":"2008-08-13T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/08\/life-in-a-japanese-soto-zen-buddhist-monastery\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:12:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:12:54","slug":"life-in-a-japanese-soto-zen-buddhist-monastery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/08\/life-in-a-japanese-soto-zen-buddhist-monastery.html","title":{"rendered":"Life in a Japanese Soto Zen Buddhist Monastery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I don\u2019t know the origins of this visit to Sojiji, one of the two major training temples of Japanese Soto Zen Buddhism<\/a>, but the visuals, if not the commentary (which is astonishingly bad), are wonderful. The Youtube description says it was filmed in 1959. 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