Reverend Jiho Kongo (a Rinzai Zen priest and an international Zen teacher) from Syogangi Temple in Oita Prefecture, Japan, runs an international Zen retreat (training centre) at his temple, where students learn to do zen meditation, farming, organic and natural cooking, and other things in a huge temple compound near the ocean. Kongo Sensei gave a talk on Zen Buddhism. He is an old friend of Ishiyama Sensei since 1979 and Kawahara Sensei since the early 1980s. He used to come to B.C. Aikido summer camps and teach Zen. Kongo Sensei lived in Victoria for two years teaching Zen. His Zen retreat website is: http://www.zenretreat.com.

Reverend Kongo gives a lecture on Zen to members of VWA

Sensei and Reverend Kongo

A happy man

Reverend Kongo and group at VWA

Dinner with Reverend Kongo

Sensei and Reverend Kongo

Reverend Kongo and Ian