Oakland Zen Center - Kojin An Zendo 好人庵禅堂

12/19/2025

Kojin-an has continued to serve as both a place of refuge and an expression of the heart of Soto Zen practice throughout 2025.

Your support—whether through heartfelt gifts or steady practice—enables Kojin-an to remain a sanctuary and a place of awakening for everyone who enters. As the year comes to a close, please consider renewing your support for this “Good People Hermitage” with a generous year-end gift.

With nine bows of gratitude, we wish you good health and good spirits in 2026,
九拜

The Board of Kojin-an / Oakland Zen Center

04/09/2023

02/05/2023

One plum blossom more
And that very one more
Is where the warmth comes in
-Ransetsu

Sakura.

05/23/2021

Tenpyozan is pleased to announce a special event!

On Sunday, May 30, our sangha member, Rev. Kanzan John Slattery, and his fellow musicians in
The pickPocket Ensemble (http://www.pickpocketensemble.com) will offer an afternoon of music as a fundraiser for Tenpyozan.

The event will be broadcast on Zoom from Kojinan (link to be announced soon), and limited seating will be available outdoors in Kojinan’s garden.

Topic: An Afternoon with the pickPocket ensemble - A Benefit for Tenpyozan Project
Time: May 30, 2021 02:00 p.m. Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89077433444?pwd=akkzQ3FwWEZHQytZSmtMOWt4RFc0Zz09

Meeting ID: 890 7743 3444
Passcode: 885588

The event will begin at 2:00 p.m. and end at 4:00 p.m. We will have a short presentation about Tenpyozan during the concert.

Please support Tenpyozan by donating on Tenpyozan’s webpage (http://www.tenpyozan.org/get-involved) in appreciation of this special event. We are grateful for your support; we await the easing of COVID travel restrictions and the return of our carpenters from Japan so that construction can continue.

We welcome your contribution of resources, time, and talent

05/23/2021

We welcome your contribution of resources, time, and talent

05/01/2021

Kojin-an is an ally partner sangha for this gathering:

A National Buddhist Memorial Ceremony for Asian American Ancestors
Tuesday, May 4th, 2021 4pm PDT / 7pm EDT ONLINE

May We Gather is the first national Buddhist memorial service in response to anti-Asian violence. The event will bring together Asian American Buddhists and their allies to heal in community together. The hourlong event will be held on Tuesday, May 4th, 2021 at 4pm PDT and freely broadcast online fr

08/30/2020

Today's Zendo, August 30, 2020

04/20/2020

Yoshie-san's flower arrangement for the zendo.
Sunday April 19, 2020

04/12/2020

Today's Zendo
April 12, 2020

12/17/2018

Greetings everyone! We have a year-end update on the Tenpyozan Project.
https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Tenpyozan-Update---Year-End-2018.html?soid=1125666341622&aid=vXAbQNfexIE