SO TO ZEN - Shasta Abbey

Appendix II: Correspondence 151Document 6 is the translation of the certificate accompanyingthe presentation of Koh‡ ZenjiÕs ashes to Shasta Abbey. It isincluded within the ÒImportant AnnouncementÓ article writtenby Rev. R‡shi Jiyu-Kennett, O.B.C., Abbess, and published inThe Journal of Shasta Abbey, October-November-December1984. The original of the certificate is not included here, but itdid appear when this article was published in The Journal ofShasta Abbey.IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTRev. R‡shi Jiyu-Kennett, O.B.C., AbbessOn the 2nd. of November, Rev. Ek‡ Little and Rev. KinseiTower went to the Far East for the purpose of attending a symposiumon the future of S‡t‡ Zen temples in the West of whichShasta Abbey is one. Whilst I will leave it to Rev. Little toinform the readership at a later date of the actual decisionsreached during the symposium, there were several other eventswhich, at least form the point of view of Shasta Abbey, are offar greater importance.After the death of Rev. Seck Kim Seng, Archbishop ofMalacca, Malaysia, Shasta Abbey received his ashes for intermenthere in the shrine of the ancestors, known in ShastaAbbey as the Koh‡ Zenji Shrine. As all of you know, Rev. Seck