VOLUME X, Number 1
Januatry - June 2020
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IN MEMORIAM

Willigis Jäger OSB (1925-2020)

Father Willigis Jäger, a monk of Münsterschwarzach and well-known Zen Roshi, died on March 20, 2020, at the age of ninety-five.

Father Jäger began Zen training with Yamada Koun Roshi in 1975 at the Sanbō Kyōdan in Kamakura, Japan.

He founded a center of Zen and contemplation at Münsterschwarzach in 1983. Ordained a Zen Master (Roshi) in 1996, he founded his own Benekiktushof: Zentrum für Meditation und Achtsamkeit [Centre for Meditation and Mindfulness] in Holzkirchen (Unterfranken) near Würzburg in 2003.

His obituary, which appeared on the website of Münsterschwarzach, can be found here with an English translation.

 
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