Dervish Healing Order

DHO

First Abbess of Shasta Abbey &

Founder of the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives

Text Box: Dear Jean Pierre,

Text Box:     Thank you for your email.  We are delighted to grant you permission to use the photograph of Reverend Master Jiyu-Kennett for your website.  I don't think I was one of the monks toasting the wine glass that you mentioned, but I was the grateful recipient of Saul's hospitality on more than one occasion.  We returned Murshid Sam's chair back to the San Francisco Sufi Community soon after Reverend Master Jiyu-Kennett's death.  I never met Murshid Sam, but I did meet many members of the Sufi Community and all of my memories are warm and happy.

Text Box:     I wish you all well and ask that you remember me to Saul next time you are in contact with him.  Thank you for your kindness in asking us permission to use the photograph.  We do so with joy.

Text Box: Yours in the Buddhist Way,

Text Box: Rev. Eko Little

Dervish Healing Order
Text Box: Reverend Master Jiyu-Kennett

Reverend Master Yiyu-Kennett

January 1, 1924 - November 6, 1996

When I am gone,

And the house seems empty,

Do not thou, O plum tree by the eaves,

The Spring forget.

From The Roar of the Tigress, by the late Rev. Master Jiyu-Kennett

copyright by the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives, all rights reserved

Shasta Abbey is a Buddhist monastery in the Serene Reflection Meditation (Soto Zen) tradition and is a temple in the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives. The late Reverend Master Jiyu-Kennett, founder of our Order, established Shasta Abbey in 1970 and was its Abbess until her death in 1996. Her spiritual successor as Abbot of Shasta Abbey is Reverend Master Eko Little. The monastery is home to 25-30 ordained, celibate male and female priests and is located on 16 acres of forested land north of the town of Mt. Shasta, California.

http://shastaabbey.org/index.html