Buddha's Birthday Ceremony & Meditation (Vesak)

Steve Kanji Ruhl

Rev.

Rev. Steve Kanji Ruhl is an ordained Zen Buddhist minister who received his Master of Divinity from Harvard University.  In addition to training in end-of-life issues at Harvard, he has experienced those issues directly through the deaths of beloved family members and close friends and through hospice chaplaincy. Author of the books Appalachian Zen and Enlightened Contemporaries and two books of poems, he is a  faculty member of the Shogaku Zen Institute, teaches Zen students independently through his online Touch the Earth cyber-sangha, and is a longtime Buddhist advisor at Deerfield Academy and with the Yale Buddhist Student Community.