The Peaceful Sea Sangha is led by Edward Espe Brown, a Soto Zen Buddhist priest. Edward was ordained in 1971 by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, who gave him the Dharma name Jusan Kainei, which means "Longevity Mountain, Peaceful Sea."
Edward has been practicing Zen since 1965 and also has done extensive vipassana practice, yoga, and chi gung. He leads regular sitting groups and meditation retreats in Northern California and offers workshops in the U.S. and internationally on a variety of subjects, including cooking, handwriting change, and Mindfulness Touch. Edward is an accomplished chef, who helped found Greens Restaurant in San Francisco and worked with Deborah Madison in writing The Greens Cookbook. Edward's other books include The Tassajara Bread Book, Tassajara Cooking, The Tassajara Recipe Book, and Tomato Blessings and Radish Teachings. He also edited Not Always So, a collection of Suzuki Roshi's lectures. In 2007, Edward appeared in How to Cook Your Life, a critically acclaimed feature-length documentary film directed by Doris Dörrie.
News
- Donate via PayPal. You can now use a credit card to make a tax deductible donation to Peaceful Sea Sangha on the Audio Dharma page. Your support is greatly appreciated.
- The Peaceful Sea Marketplace is now open. Please check back as more items are added.
- New Audio Dharma here, added April 22.
- New Content for "How to Cook Your Life Page" here.
- How to Cook Your Life is now available on DVD. Watch the trailer here, at the official film website.
- The Complete Tassajara Cookbook: Recipes,
Techniques, and Reflections from the Famed Zen Kitchen
will be published by Shambhala on September 8, 2009. This book
is a compilation of three of Edward’s most popular books: Tassajara Cooking,
The Tassajara Recipe Book, and
Tomato Blessings and Radish Teachings, re-edited and
updated throughout, with new recipes and line art. It is
available for preorder
here.
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Edward Espe Brown