Abbot
Meido Zentetsu (Moore) Roshi has been appointed by the Korinji Foundation board to serve as shike (abbot) of Korinji monastery. He is to take up residence at Korinji upon completion of sufficient residential facilities there.
Meido began Buddhist practice in Bodh Gaya, India in 1988 while attending the Antioch Buddhist Studies program and graduated from Rutgers University in 1990 with a degree in Religion. He immediately entered the training hall of the late Zen master Tenzan Toyoda Rokoji - a betsuin (branch temple) of Chozen-ji, the temple founded in Hawaii by Omori Sogen Roshi. At that time he also began sanzen training under Kizan Dogen (Hosokawa) Roshi, one of Omori's Roshi's dharma heirs.
Meido resided in Toyoda Rokoji's dojo for six years, practicing Zen and undergoing severe training in budo (traditional martial arts). He went on to manage several international organizations founded by that teacher for the promotion of Japanese cultural arts and Zen. He was ordained in 2003.
He founded the Korinji Foundation in 2005. Upon Hosokawa Roshi's retirement that same year he continued his practice under So’zan Daitetsu (Miller) Roshi, one of Hosokawa Roshi's dharma heirs and the current abbot of Daiyuzenji, Korinji's sister temple in Chicago. He has completed the traditional Hakuin-Torei koan curriculum, and in 2008 received inka shomei ("mind seal") designating him a lineage holder in the 48th generation of the Zen line descended from Rinzai Gigen.
Roshi currently lives in Chicago where he teaches regularly at Daiyuzenji and is a guiding teacher of the Rinzai Zen Community. He frequently lectures for classes and interfaith events at Northwestern and DePaul Universities, and travels widely to teach and practice.
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