Every Sunday, she opens the monastery to the public and delivers two talks, along with sessions of zazen, formal oriyoki meals, and, periodically, tea meditation (chazen) (Arai 1990, 38). Today, at Aichi Senmon Nisōdō, Aoyama Rōshi not only directs the leading training program for Zen nuns in Japan, but also conducts regular classes and meditation programs for laypeople. appropriate titles and religious robes” (Arai 1999, 74). According to religious studies scholar Paula Arai, the leading contemporary scholar of Sōtō Zen laywomen and nuns, “the nuns now control their own religious training, enjoy educational and ceremonial rights, and have. Due to her unflagging efforts, nuns in the Sōtō Zen tradition have now achieved unprecedented visibility and independence. Situated within a notably patriarchal tradition, she has been a leader in the struggle for gender parity in contemporary Japan. Aoyama Rōshi’s legacy and her place in the Buddhist world are unique.
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