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Shasta Abbey (Mount Shasta, California) · 1972
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Jiyu-Kennett
Jiyu-Kennett
1924 CE–1996 CE · Modern · Shasta Abbey (Mount Shasta, California)
January 1, 1924 – November 6, 1996
Jiyu-Kennett (1924–1996), born Peggy Kennett in England, was a Sōtō Zen teacher and the first woman sanctioned by the Japanese Sōtō school to teach in the West. In 1970 she founded Shasta Abbey in northern California—the first U.S. Sōtō Zen monastery established by a woman—and in 1972 Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey in England; her network became the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives in 1978. She died in 1996.
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DOCUMENTED: founded Shasta Abbey in 1970, the first Sōtō Zen monastery in the U.S. established by a woman.
About Shasta Abbey (Mount Shasta, California)
Shasta Abbey, near Mount Shasta in northern California, USA, is a Sōtō Zen training monastery. It was established in 1970 by Rev. Master Jiyu-Kennett, an English-born woman who trained in Japan and founded the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives.
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