Densho Quintero Interview

Densho Quintero is a Soto Zen priest and Dharma heir of Shohaku Okumura-roshi (head teacher of Sanshin Zen Community in Bloomington Indiana and Director of the Soto Zen Buddhism International Center). Densho is the director of the Daishin Temple of the Soto Zen Community of Colombia in Bogotá. He started practicing in 1984 and received monk ordination in France in 1987. In 1989, he founded in Bogota a center for the diffusion and practice of Soto Zen. In October 2001, he received Tokudo and the name of Densho in Antaiji, by the abbot Ven. Shinyu Miyaura. After Miyaura Roshi’s death in February 2002, he became student of Shohaku Okumura Roshi. In December 2007 he completed the ceremony of Hossenshiki in Sao Paulo Brazil, with Rev. Dosho Saikawa Sokan. He translated the Book Opening the hand of Thought by Kosho Uchiyama Roshi into Spanish, published in Editorial Kairós in Barcelona Spain in 2009. In November 2006 he published the book Conciencia zen (Spanish Edition) (Zen Consciousness) with Editorial Albatros from Argentina. In March 2009, he received Dharma Transmission from Okumura Roshi. In 2009 he did Zuisse at the two main temples of the Soto Zen School, Eiheiji and Sojiji. He is a full member of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association of North America.

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