KOKYO HENKEL

Kokyo Henkel has been practicing Zen since 1990: in residence at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center (most recently as Head of Practice), Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, No Abode Hermitage in Mill Valley, and Bukkokuji Monastery in Japan, and currently as a teacher at Santa Cruz Zen Center. He was ordained as a priest in 1994 by Tenshin Anderson Roshi and received 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. 

Kokyo is a pioneer in the Buddhist community who has respectfully looked at the interface between Buddhist practice and plant medicine work. He brings a deep practical wisdom to the exploration of both psychedelic and contemplative states of consciousness. Learn more at www.sczc.org