Shodo Harada RoshiTeacher and Founder of the One Drop Community
Shodo Harada practiced at Shofukuji temple (Kobe) for twenty years. Mumon Roshi, the head abbot of the temple chose Shodo Harada to be his succerssor in teaching Zen to foreign students and gave him formal transmission in 1983. Harada came to Sogenji (Okayama) to teach, welcoming people from all over the world. Some years later he journeyed to the United States to teach, leading his first sesshin there in 1989 for the group that eventually established Tahoma Sogenji Zen Monastery on Whidbey Island, Washington. A few years later he began traveling and offering sesshins in Europe. Eventually a central place was established by ShoE Zenshi; Hokuozan Sogenji Monastery in Asendorf, Germany. Each year he goes to central India as well, to lead sesshin at the Indozan Monastery established by his Indian student Bodhidhamma. Groups of his students have sprung up all over the world since then. Truly living the title Zen Master, he does all of this in addition to keeping an extremely full schedule of teaching and sesshin in Sogenji Monastery in Okayama, Japan. He is utterly dedicated to keeping the Buddha Dharma alive at its most profound level.
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