New York Zendo Shobo-Ji , or Temple of True Dharma, is a Rinzai

Rinzai school

The Rinzai school is , one of three sects of Zen in Japanese Buddhism.Rinzai is the Japanese line of the Chinese Linji school, which was founded during the Tang Dynasty by Linji Yixuan...

 zen practice facility located in the upper East Side of Manhattan, NY. It is part of the Zen Studies Society

Zen Studies Society

The Zen Studies Society was established in 1956 by Cornelius Crane to help assist the scholar Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki in his work and to help promulgate Zen Buddhism to Western countries. It is housed on East 67th Street, New York and serves as a Zen practice and training center...

. Founded on September 15, 1968 by Japanese Zen master Soen Nakagawa

Soen Nakagawa

Soen Nakagawa was a Taiwanese-born Japanese rōshi and Zen Buddhist master in the Rinzai tradition...

, the building had been converted from a private home. Eido Tai Shimano

Eido Tai Shimano

is a Rinzai Zen Buddhist roshi. He was the founding abbot of the New York Zendo Shobo-Ji in Manhattan and Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-Ji monastery in the Catskill mountains of New York; he retired from that position after 40 years amid controversy.-Biography:...

, now retired, was the founding abbot

Abbot

The word abbot, meaning father, is a title given to the head of a monastery in various traditions, including Christianity. The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not actually the head of a monastery...

; he was succeeded by Roko Sherry Chayat, who is the current abbot.