Onshin Landry

Onshin started practicing Zen in 2012 during the Summer Program at Great Vow. He entered the monastery as a full-time trainee in 2014, and received Tokudo (Zen priest ordination) in 2019. Onshin has served as the in-house bookkeeper of Zen Community of Oregon for over six years, and has deeply enjoyed how simple and loving Zen Buddhist practice is and can be. He became a Dharma Holder in 2023. Onshin has completed two training periods (Ango) in monasteries in Japan. One at Toshoji Monastery in Okayama in 2024, and the other at Kotaiji Monastery in Nagasaki in 2025.