Upcoming
DHARMA DOJO: MONDAY NIGHT MEDITATION
Rev. Matsubara will focus on enlightenment through Japanese meditation for this new series. Please join us in practicing meditation and listening to a Dharma talk to calm and reenergize your soul.
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.
