Soto Zen practice in Boulder, Colorado
Where plum blossoms open after winter snow
A low voice at the gate
Hakubai Zen Center offers practice in the Soto tradition of Japan, in the lineage of Tenzan Keibun Daiosho, Houn Kobun Chino Roshi, and Martin Mosko Roshi. We sit together in a beautiful garden setting at the foot of the Flatirons. Whether you are new to Zen or have a long-standing practice, you are warmly welcome.
Come sit with us — the schedule is herePractice
Mornings at six.
Sundays at nine.
- Monday6:00 AM – 7:20 AMMorning Zazen
- Wednesday6:00 AM – 7:20 AMMorning Zazen
- Friday6:00 AM – 7:20 AMMorning Zazen
- Sunday9:00 AM – 11:30 AMZazen, Kinhin & Dharma Talk
First time?
Arrive ten or fifteen minutes early. Take off your shoes in the entrance. No one expects you to know everything your first time — watch others and follow their lead.
Walking as practice
Slow down; observe.
Walking the garden is a practice in itself. Every stone, every plant, every raked path invites you to slow down. Martin Mosko — founding abbot, and a landscape architect — designed these gardens; they were his teaching in stone and water, and they still are.
Either I'm a monk who makes gardens, or a gardener who happens to be a monk, and both are true.
Our teachers
One person to one person.
Our teachers carry the transmission of Zen practice in the lineage of Houn Kobun Chino Roshi and Tenzan Keibun Daiosho. They are dedicated to supporting your practice.
John Barnett (Hakuho Kikuu)
Sensei
Began meditating through martial-arts training in the 1980s; began Zen with Daishin Roshi in 2013; ordained at Jokoji, Japan in 2018; received transmission from Daishin Roshi in 2022.
Scott Peppet (Haku'un Shunshin)
Sensei
Practiced five years in a Dzogchen lineage before returning to Zen for one-on-one training with Daishin Roshi in the early 2000s; ordained at Jokoji in 2018; received transmission from Daishin Roshi in 2022.
- Tenzan Keibun Daiosho
- Houn Kobun Chino Roshi
- Martin Mosko Roshi (Daishin Osho)
The lineage of Hakubai, through Jokoji temple in Kamo, Japan.
What transmission means
Not a credential, but a long friendship.
Practice here is passed person to person, through years of sitting together. Our teachers were ordained at Jokoji, our sister temple in Japan, and return there for ceremonies that bind this garden to the temple where Daishin Osho trained. This is what lineage means: not a credential, but a long friendship.
News
A living community, moving forward.
- Jan 4, 2026Move from the Yurts to the House!Building Project
- Dec 30, 2025Deconstructing the YurtsBuilding Project
- Dec 15, 2025Hossenshiki in Japan for Scott PeppetNews
Building project
Impermanence, held calmly.
The two yurts that held our practice for over twenty years have come down, decommissioned with a small ceremony as the property is annexed into the City of Boulder. For now we sit in the house at 1275 Cherryvale, and a new temple is planned for the same ground. The garden remains.
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