Dharma River Zen Temple (Hosen-Ji)

The Dharma River Story – Living a Circle of Awakening

The Zen Garland Way: Cultivating the “Ever Intimate” (Shinzo) to promote peace, salvation, healing and liberation.

Zen Garland Dharma River Zen Center offers experienced teachers and a warm and welcoming community devoted to holistic human development, focused on each practitioner’s engagement with their personal lives in the world. We welcome beginners, accomplished practitioners and Zen teachers to gather together with us in a holistic and creative approach to Zen and life that emerges from our realization: the direct experience that human nature is the very nature of all creation, a unitary multiverse of intimate interaction and interconnection.

Zen is about our lives: the relationships we have, the work we do, how we experience ourselves and the world. With each student we create a skill-building developmental practice and personal teaching relationship. Our goals include cultivating the individual’s talents and faculties; and enhancing the power and skills with which they can engage their personal life journey.

The term “sangha” as used in Buddhism often refers to the community of practitioners.  We embrace this sense of sangha and also extend our work through Dharma River Zen Community into the greater area of Winona.  In our shared space, communities of faith and spiritual development come together to practice, conduct ceremony, and to work together to serve all of Winona regardless of the particular belief system or practice they may primarily identify with.

Living on the Dharma River

Manitou Center
Community-based center in Winona devoted to the cultivation of holistic human development of mind, body, and spirit