Nonin Chowaney

Rev. Nonin Chowaney (OPW) (died July 29, 2022) was an American Soto Zen priest and brush calligrapher.^[1][2] A Dharma heir of the late Dainin Katagiri-roshi,^[3][4] Chowaney received Dharma transmission in 1989 and was the founder of an organization of Soto priests known as The Order of the Prairie Wind (OPW), which is now defunct.^[5]

Rev. Nonin Chowaney
Personal
Religion	Buddhism
Nationality	American
School	Sōtō

Chowaney was longtime abbot of the Nebraska Zen Center in Omaha. In 1999, Chowaney founded the Zen Center of Pittsburgh - Deep Spring Temple in Bell Acres, Pennsylvania and appointed Rev. Kyōki Roberts as the head priest. Then in 2001 he gave Dharma transmission to Roberts, his only ordained student.^[6]

See also

• Buddhism in the United States
• Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States

References

1. Fussell, James A. (1 August 2006). "It's summer, it's hot, so deal with it 'Accepting' the heat makes more sense than trying to fight it, an environmental educator says". Kansas City Star. Retrieved 20 March 2008.
2. Chadwick, David (1994). Thank you and OK! An American Zen Failure in Japan. Arkana. ISBN 0-14-019457-6. OCLC 29638449.
3. Ford, James Ishmael (2006). Zen Master Who?: A Guide to the People and Stories of Zen. Wisdom Publications. pp. 135. ISBN 0-86171-509-8.
4. . Sweeping Zen. 13 April 2011. Archived from the original on 7 March 2012. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
5. . Sweeping Zen. Archived from the original on 30 March 2014. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
6. "Head Priest". Zen Center of Pittsburgh. 3 August 2014. Retrieved 1 April 2015.