Eido Frances Carney

Eido Frances Carney is the founder and teacher of Olympia Zen Center in Washington. She completed Soto Zen Buddhist training in Japan and received Dharma Transmission in 1997 from Niho Tetsumei Roshi of Entsuji Temple, Kurashiki, Japan, in lineage with the hermit priest-poet Ryokan. She is a former president of the national organization of Soto Zen priests. She has taught at university and community college and led creative-spiritual workshops in the United States and Europe. She has a master's...See more

Eido Frances Carney is the founder and teacher of Olympia Zen Center in Washington. She completed Soto Zen Buddhist training in Japan and received Dharma Transmission in 1997 from Niho Tetsumei Roshi of Entsuji Temple, Kurashiki, Japan, in lineage with the hermit priest-poet Ryokan. She is a former president of the national organization of Soto Zen priests. She has taught at university and community college and led creative-spiritual workshops in the United States and Europe. She has a master's degree in creative writing from San Francisco State University and is the author of Kakurenbo Or the Whereabouts of Zen Priest Ryokan, and editor of Receiving the Marrow, Teachings on Dogen by Soto Zen Women Priests. She publishes non-fiction, poetry, and fiction under her birth name Mary Frances Carney, and is an exhibited painter. Entering the Stream is the first book in the Zen Journal Guides and The Three Treasures is second in a series on writing for self exploration, spiritual development and understanding in a Zen Buddhist context. See less