Enpuku-ji Zen Centre
Centre Zen de la Main (original name until 2009)
4620, St-Dominique
Montréal, QC
H2T 1T5
514-842-3648
www.enpuku-ji.org
Courriel/E-mail: info@enpuku-ji.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/myokyo
Resident teacher: Zengetsu Myoko, ordained priest
Lineage: Kyozan Joshu Sasaki, Roshi
Practices: Chanting sutras, discussion groups, meditation, physical labour, precepts/ordination, prostrations, retreats, vegetarian
Meditation: Walking, zazen
Public activities:
Zazen: Mon-Fri 6-7:30am, 6-7:30pm. Sat 9:30-11am
Dharma talks: Friday morning, Friday evening, Saturday morning.
Weekly one-hour zazen sessions at McGill and Concordia University Chaplaincies and the Yellow Door, a community centre.
English instruction: 1st Saturday of each month
French instruction: 2nd Saturday of each month
Zazenkai (one-day retreat): third Sunday of each month, except for April, July and August.
Sesshin (five-day retreat): Early January, late April and late August.
Other activities and initiatives:
Montreal Zen Poetry Festival – biennial festival with international guests, 12-14 events over four days www.montrealzenpoetryfestival.ca. Enpuku-ji Press is the publisher of each festival’s collection of works of the invitees. Also, events organized between festivals.
Private and Buddha ceremonies such as lay ordinations, weddings, funerals, memorials, child-naming ceremonies, Buddha’s birthday ceremony.
Annual Fundraising yardsale in September.
Affiliation: My brother-monk is the resident priest of the Zen Centre of Vancouver.
Associated with: Rinzai-ji, headquarters in Los Angeles
Languages: French, English, Spanish
Charity number: 895946978RR0001 Registered 1995
Listing updated: March 2022