DHARMA DOJO
MONDAY NIGHT
MEDITATION
Monday
6 pm - 7 pm Pacific Time
9 pm - 10 pm Eastern Time
“An Hour of Zazen with an 18th-Generation Rinzai Zen Priest”
Join us online for a one-hour session of meditation guided by Dr. Masaki Matsubara.
Rooted in an unbroken lineage of practice, this period of zazen offers a rare opportunity to sit in stillness, cultivate awareness, and encounter the mind as it is. Practicing together online, we honor the traditional form while meeting in the shared space of the present moment.
All are welcome.
Meeting ID: 840 3005 1780
Passcode: DharmaDojo
MASAKI MATSUBARA
Rev. Dr. Masaki Matsubara is an eighteenth-generation Zen priest in the Japanese Rinzai tradition. Following his Zen monastic training at Heirinji Monastery in Japan, Matsubara earned a Ph.D. in Asian Religions from Cornell University.
Following his doctoral studies, he taught Buddhist Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Religious Studies at the University of California, Berkeley (2009-2013) and was a fellow at the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford University (2013-14). He was a Visiting Scholar at Cornell’s East Asia Program (2014-2021) and also served as an Adjunct Affiliated Chaplain at Cornell United Religious Work (CURW). Further, he served as a Visiting Lecturer in the Religious Studies Department and the Contemplative Studies Concentration (Spring 2020) at Brown University.
Currently, he is a Contemplative Mentor in Residence in the Contemplative Studies Initiative at Brown. He also serves as a Visiting Professor at Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies at the University of Tokyo. Recently he has been assigned as a member of the prestigious Advisory Forum of the KAICIID (King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue). He is the Zen temple Butsumo-ji abbot in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, traveling between the United States and Japan to lead seminars and retreats. He resides in New York City, New York.
Masaki Matsubara earned a Ph.D. in Asian Religions from Cornell University. He taught at the Department of Religious Studies at UC Berkeley and was the BDK Fellow at the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford University. He is now a visiting scholar in the East Asia program at Cornell and a visiting lecturer in the Contemplative Studies program at Brown University. Moreover, he serves as a Visiting Professor at the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies at the University of Tokyo. He is the abbot of the Zen Temple Butsumoji in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. He currently resides in New York City.
