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Kanja Odland
TitleRoshi
Personal
Born1963
Stockholm
ReligionZen Buddhism
SchoolSōtō and Rinzai
LineageHarada-Yasutani
Senior posting
Based inZengården training temple
Stockholm Zen Center
PredecessorRoshi Bodhin Kjolhede
Websitewww.zentraining.org

Kanja Odland Roshi is a Zen Buddhist priest and teacher in the tradition of Philip Kapleau[1][2]. She was born in Stockholm in 1963.[3]

She started her Zen training in 1984, as a student of both Roshi Philip Kapleau and his successor Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. She was ordained as a priest in 1999 and also finished her koan training that year[4]. She is authorized as an independent teacher (Roshi) in the “Cloud-Water Sangha” lineage[5].

Together with Sante Poromaa Roshi, she leads Zenbuddhistiska Samfundet[2] with centres in Sweden, Finland, Germany and the UK as well as a full-time training temple in rural Sweden called Zengården. Odland offers regular sesshin (meditation retreats), in English and regularly gives public talks on Zen. They have sanctioned five of their students as Zen teachers: Karl Kaliski Sensei[6], Sangen Salo Sensei[7], Dharman Ödman Sensei[8], Mitra Virtaperko Sensei[9] och Kansan Zetterberg Sensei.

She is active in contemporary Swedish intellectual and cultural life[1][10][11]. Her first book, Vandring på Spårlös Stig, was published in 2013.[12]

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  1. ^ a b "Separation är världens sjuka". DN.se (in Swedish). 26 May 2002. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
  2. ^ a b 2600 Years of Sambuddhatva: Global Journey of Awakening. Ministry of Buddhasasana and Religious Affairs, Government of Sri Lanka. 2011. ISBN 978-955-9349-33-4.
  3. ^ "Cloud Water Zen Centre / About us / Our Tradition". www.cloudwaterzen.org. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
  4. ^ "Zengården". www.zentraining.org. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
  5. ^ "Cloud-Water Sangha - Rochester Zen Center". Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  6. ^ "Cloud Water Zen Centre / About us / Our Tradition". www.cloudwaterzen.org. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  7. ^ "Teacher Sangen Salo - Sanneji". 1 February 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  8. ^ "Göteborg Zen Center". www.goteborgzencenter.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  9. ^ "Uusi opettaja Tampereelle: Sensei Mitra Virtaperko! - Tampere Zen Center" (in Finnish). 4 November 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  10. ^ Radio, Sveriges (2 February 2022). "Svensk meditation: en folkrörelse ofta utan andlighet - Människor och tro". sverigesradio.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 3 November 2024.
  11. ^ "Kanja Odland". Sveriges Radio (in Swedish). 19 June 2008. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
  12. ^ Odland, Kanja (2013). Vandring på spårlös stig: en zenutövares anteckningar. Fellingsbro: Zendo. ISBN 978-91-977857-4-7.

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