I photographed the dedication ceremony for a Buddhist Zendo's new meditation center in Mountain View, California a couple weeks ago.
Monks from Japan, the Pacific Northwest and San Francisco Zen Center took their places beforehand:
http://tinyurl.com/2wwvz5 Chitose Suzuki has a thoughtful moment: http://tinyurl.com/2jg2hw A bell broke the silence to begin: http://tinyurl.com/yqwffvBefore the ceremony, monks blessed different areas of the center with incense in ancient Japanese tradition. As they walked, two women carpeted their path with rose petals. The petal pitchers really got into it:
http://tinyurl.com/ysa7qg http://tinyurl.com/yqwffv Roshi Les Kaye blessed the altar:http://tinyurl.com/2segn5 (A 90mm Tele-Elmar wide-open with Fuji NPZ worked well)
At the reception afterwards, Hoitsu Suzuki-Roshi took a look at pictures of the old Zendo and people in its history:
http://tinyurl.com/2uagr3 (A 50mm Noctilux / Fuji NPZ picture)Hoitsu Suzuki is the son of Shunryu Suzuki, the author of "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" and the man who brought Zen practice to San Francisco in the 1960s. Shunryu Suzuki helped the original Mountain View center get started, and shortly before his death ordained Roshi Les Kaye. Les is a retired IBM engineer, and the Roshi of the present-day center.
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