| Bodhin Kjolhede | |
| Birth Date: | 1948 |
| Birth Place: | Michigan |
| Religion: | Zen Buddhism |
| School: | Rochester Zen Center |
| Lineage: | Philip Kapleau |
| Roshi | |
| Location: | Rochester Zen Center Chapin Mill Buddhist Retreat Center |
| Education: | University of Michigan |
| Predecessor: | Philip Kapleau |
| Successor: | Donna Kowal John Pulleyn |
| Students: | Gerardo Gally Robert Goldmann Donna Kowal Kanja Odland Sante Poromaa John Pulleyn Sevan Ross Rick Smith Richard von Sturmer Amala Wrightson |
| Website: | www.rzc.org chapinmill.org |
Bodhin Kjolhede (born 1948) is an American Sōtō/Rinzai Zen roshi and Abbot of the Rochester Zen Center (RZC), a position he assumed when Philip Kapleau retired from teaching in 1986.[1] He founded the “Cloud-Water Sangha”, an international community of Zen centers led by teachers in his lineage.
Kjolhede was ordained as a priest in 1976. In 1986 he was formally installed as Kapleau’s Dharma-successor and Abbot of the Rochester Zen Center.[2] He has additionally been offered transmission in a Sōtō lineage, but has thus far chosen to decline.[3]
Kjolhede has authorized ten of his disciples as teachers, some of whom are independent teachers with their own dharma successors:
The Cloud-Water Sangha is formed of centers led by Kjolhede's students and their disciples:
The name of the sangha is a translation of the Japanese term unsui.[4]