Rev. Kokyo Henkel began his Zen training at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center (most recently as Tanto, or Head of Practice), and has spent over 20 years there and at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, No Abode Hermitage, and Bukkokuji Monastery in Japan. He was ordained as a priest in 1994 by Tenshin Reb Anderson, receiving Dharma Transmission from him in 2010. Kokyo is interested in exploring how the original teachings of Buddha-Dharma from ancient India, China, and Japan are still very much alive and useful in present-day America to bring peace and harmony to this troubled world.