HOKO-JI

A Buddhist Community near Taos, New Mexico

Hokoji or Phoenix Light Temple is a family practice temple, founded by Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi and students in 1983. Bu-tan Stan White is the current Temple Priest.

Hokoji sits at 8030 feet in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Taos, below a mountain which Kobun named “Daisho-Zan” or “Great Holy Mountain”. Kobun's calligraphy in the left sidebar, "Dai-sho-Zan-Ho-ko-Ji", translates as "Great Holy Mountain Phoenix Light Temple".

Hokoji offers daily zazen and morning service, monthly all day zazen practice on the Sunday nearest the full moon and the traditional yearly Soto Zen sesshins. A memorial sesshin is held in July for Kobun and his daughter Maya who died together in 2002 in a drowning accident in Switzerland.

Each sesshin is led by a teacher (Sensei) who has received transmission in Kobun Roshi’s lineage. Vanja Palmers, of Switzerland, has been accepted by Kobun's students as his Dharma Heir.

Kobun, who taught us to "trust ourselves" said "Hokoji belongs to those who use it." Kobun's calligraphy "Hoko-ji- A Buddhist Community" appears in the banner at the top of this page.

Information is available from info@hokojitaos.org or at 575-776-9733.

Hokoji Zen Temple, PO Box 248, Arroyo Seco, NM 87514