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Our group was originally incorporated as a not-for-profit Society in British Columbia in 1980 under the name Victoria Zen Centre.\u00a0 <\/span>In 2013 we changed the name to Zenwest Buddhist Society.\u00a0 <\/span>Zenwest is recognized as a religious body in the Province of British Columbia, and is a federally registered charity.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n Zen practice here has arisen out of the Japanese Rinzai tradition.\u00a0 <\/span>Kosen Eshu Martin Osho was affirmed as the first Abbot and teacher by the board of directors and membership in 2005.\u00a0 <\/span>He retired\/resigned in 2018.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n Spiritual direction is now provided by our three priests: Revs Hoyu Boulter, Doshu Rogers and Soshin McMurchy.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”http:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Revs-3.jpg” _builder_version=”3.9″][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our group was originally incorporated as a not-for-profit Society in British Columbia in 1980 under the name Victoria Zen Centre.\u00a0 In 2013 we changed the name to Zenwest Buddhist Society.\u00a0 Zenwest is recognized as a religious body in the Province of British Columbia, and is a federally registered charity.\u00a0 Zen practice here has arisen out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"Our group was originally incorporated as a not-for-profit Society in British Columbia in 1980 under the name Victoria Zen Centre.\u00a0 <\/span>In 2013 we changed the name to Zenwest Buddhist Society.\u00a0 <\/span>Zenwest is recognized as a religious body in the Province of British Columbia, and is a federally registered charity.\u00a0 <\/span>\r\n\r\nZen practice here has arisen out of the Japanese Rinzai tradition.\u00a0 <\/span>Kosen Eshu Martin Osho was affirmed as the first Abbot and teacher by the board of directors and membership in 2005.\u00a0 <\/span>He retired\/resigned in 2018.\u00a0 <\/span>\r\n\r\nSpiritual direction is now provided by our three priests: Revs Doshu Rogers, Soshin McMurchy and Hoyu Boulter.","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-zenwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/1350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}