Please join Rev. Gyokei Yokoyama. Secretary of Soto Zen Buddhist North America as he addresses Ocean Gate Zen Center while he gives a series of talks at various Zen Centers to recognize the 100th Anniversary of Soto Zen Buddhism in North America. These talks are an opportunity for all of us to strengthen our connections and friendship between the Japanese Soto school and Soto Zen in the United States. Rev. Yokoyama will share his perspective gained from his duties as a former abbot of a rural community temple in Japan, a minister of a Japanese-American Buddhist Church in Los Angeles, as well as his board positions with the Association of Zen Buddhists and the Soto Zen Buddhist Association. From this unique position of having been a Soto Zen minister and teacher in both Japan and the United States he will discuss and explore with us religious pluralist within Soto Zen traditions.