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Kanja Odland
Title	Roshi
Personal life
Born	1963 Stockholm
Nationality	Swedish
Spouse	Sante Poromaa
Religious life
Religion	Zen Buddhism
School	Sōtō and Rinzai
Lineage	Philip Kapleau
Senior posting
Based in	Zengården
Website	www.zentraining.org

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Kanja Odland (born 1963) is a Swedish Zen Buddhist teacher (Roshi) and priest in the tradition of Philip Kapleau and Bodhin Kjolhede. Together with her co-teacher Sante Poromaa Roshi, she leads Zenbuddhistiska Samfundet, one of the major traditions of Zen Buddhism in Sweden with centers in several European countries.

Zen training

Odland started her Zen training in 1984 and became a student of both Roshi Philip Kapleau and his successor Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede at Rochester Zen Center. She was ordained as a priest in 1999. She is authorized as an independent teacher (Roshi) having "received dharma transmission (inka) in the 'Cloud-Water Sangha' lineage," which made her the first female zen teacher from Sweden.

Work and teaching

Since 2001, Odland has been teaching full time at Zengården, Zenbuddhistiska Samfundet's training temple in Fellingsbro in rural Sweden. ZBS also has centers in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Lund, Tampere (Finland), Cologne (Germany) and Glasgow (Scotland). The association has approximately 500 members and is a member organisation in the Swedish Buddhist Community.

Odland regularly offers regular sesshin (meditation retreats) in English and gives public talks on Zen. She is active in contemporary Swedish intellectual and cultural life.

Her first book Vandring på Spårlös Stig was published in 2013 and she has written various articles on Zen, including a commentary on the mu-koan published in Zen Bow magazine.

Lineage

Odland and Poromaa have sanctioned five of their students as Zen teachers: Karl Kaliski Sensei, Sangen Salo Sensei, Dharman Ödman Sensei, Mitra Virtaperko Sensei, and Kansan Zetterberg Sensei.

Bibliography

• Vandring på spårlös stig : en zenutövares anteckningar (Fellingsbro: Zendo, 2013) ISBN 9789197785747

Notes

1. There are two major traditions of Zen Buddhism catering to converts in Sweden. Firstly, Zenbuddhistiska Samfundet, founded in 1982, also stemming from Sanbō Kyōdan through the tradition of the American teacher Philip Kapleau (1912–2004). It has a training temple, Zengården, at Fellingsbro, and urban meditation centres in Stockholm, Gotheburg, Lund, Tampere (Finland), Cologne (Germany), and Glasgow (Scotland).

References

1. ^ "Separation är världens sjuka". DN.se (in Swedish). 26 May 2002. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
2. ^ 2600 Years of Sambuddhatva: Global Journey of Awakening. Ministry of Buddhasasana and Religious Affairs, Government of Sri Lanka. 2011. ISBN 978-955-9349-33-4.
3. "Cloud Water Zen Centre / About us / Our Tradition". www.cloudwaterzen.org. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
4. ^ Cox, Laurence; Dessì, Ugo; Pokorny, Lukas, eds. (2024). East Asian religiosities in the European Union: globalisation, migration, and hybridity. Religion and transformation in contemporary European society. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag. ISBN 978-3-506-79466-6.
5. Larsson, Lisbeth. "Vägledare i svensk zenbuddhism". Buddhism-nu (1–2008): 5–7.
6. "Cloud-Water Sangha - Rochester Zen Center". Retrieved 4 November 2024.
7. "Zengården". zentraining.org. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
8. Johansson, Stina (22 October 2018). "Stilla dig till ro med zenmeditation". Yoga för dig (in Swedish). Retrieved 5 November 2024.
9. "SBG medlemmar – Sveriges buddhistiska gemenskap" (in Swedish). Retrieved 5 November 2024.
10. "Kanja Odland". Sveriges Radio (in Swedish). 19 June 2008. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
11. Radio, Sveriges (2 February 2022). "Svensk meditation: en folkrörelse ofta utan andlighet - Människor och tro". sverigesradio.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 3 November 2024.
12. Odland, Kanja (2013). Vandring på spårlös stig: en zenutövares anteckningar. Fellingsbro: Zendo. ISBN 978-91-977857-4-7.
13. Odland, Kanja. "A small syllable of great power" (PDF). Zen Bow. XLI (4): 16–20.
14. "Cloud Water Zen Centre / About us / Our Tradition". www.cloudwaterzen.org. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
15. "Teacher Sangen Salo - Sanneji". 1 February 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
16. "Göteborg Zen Center". www.goteborgzencenter.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 4 November 2024.
17. "Uusi opettaja Tampereelle: Sensei Mitra Virtaperko! - Tampere Zen Center" (in Finnish). 4 November 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2024.

External links

• Ciolek, T. Matthew. 1995-present. Harada Sogaku, Kuroda-Osaka-Maezumi & Harada-Yasutani Schools of Zen Buddhism and their Teachers (formerly Sanbo Kyodan: Harada-Yasutani School of Zen Buddhism and its Teachers). Canberra: www.ciolek.com - Asia Pacific Research Online.

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