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<\/a><\/p>\nOn the night of the 17th of May I passed on the Soto Dharma<\/a> transmission to Sensei Sevan Ross. If you\u2019d like to see them, here are some photos from the public event that followed the next evening: Sevan Ross\u2019s Dharma transmission <\/a>. Sevan is abbot of the Chicago Zen Center<\/a> and also a Dharma successor to Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede, abbot of the Rochester Zen Center<\/a>. I look forward to seeing how Boundless Way and the Chicago Zen Center, and perhaps other sanghas in the Rochester lineage, find ways to collaborate over the coming years.<\/div>\n
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