Zen Priests
Rev. Dai Ho Hannya
Matt Wagner
Daiho became a student of Zen in 1998, when he began attending Zen/Yoga retreats with Jun Po Denis Kelly Roshi. In1999, he took Jukai, lay precepts, and was given the dharma name Bhava. Having completed college, he made the decision to move deeper into a life of practice, and begin the classical Zen monastic training of one thousand days.
In the fall of 2003, he moved to Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-ji, our root monastery, located in the Catskills of upstate New York. On November 22nd 2003, he received full monastic ordination into the Hollow Bones Order, and received the Dharma name Dai Ho Hannya.
He trained in classical Koan study at Dai Bosatsu Zendo for a year and a half under the guidance of Ven. Eido Shimano Roshi, Dharma father to Jun Po Kan Do Dennis Kelly Roshi.
Currently, Daiho is continuing his Koan study at Zen Mountain Center, in the San Jacinto Mountains of Southern California, under the direction of Abbot Tenshin Mokurai Charles Fletcher. Zen Mountain Center is of the lineage of the late Taizan Maizumi Roshi.
Matt Wagner attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison from the years1997 to 2002. He received a BA in Modern Linguistics, and German Historical Linguistics. He attended the Mankind Project Weekend the spring of 2003.
Thoughts on practice: “This practice is life. It is a commitment to step forward, every moment, into the embodiment of compassion and truth. Only with this clear, uncompromising intention, can we embrace the profound joy of human experience.”
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