Sotekizan Korinzenji
So'tekizan Korinzenji, Korinji for short, is a Rinzai Zen Buddhist monastery in the Upper Midwest region of the United States near Madison, Wisconsin. The Korinji Foundation, a not-for-profit charitable organization, was founded in 2005 to fund Korinji's construction and to support its future residents. of forested land were purchased by the Foundation for this purpose in 2008.
According to the Korinji website, groundbreaking occurred in June, 2009 and Korinji was officially dedicated as a Rinzai-lineage monastery on November 3, 2013 with the completion of its zendo. Meido Moore Roshi, a student of the Rinzai Zen teachers Tenzan Toyoda Rokoji, Dogen Hosokawa Roshi, and So'zan Miller Roshi, has been installed as the first abbot. In March 2018 monastery residential quarters were completed and the first period of formal monastic training began.
Korinji anchors a larger association of Zen practice groups called the Korinji Rinzai Zen Community, with the nearby Madison Rinzai Zen Community being its primary branch. The Zen teachers involved with Korinji are in the line of Omori Sogen Roshi, a well-known Japanese Zen master who was a successor of the Tenryu-ji line of Zen.
