The Zen Studies Society community celebrated the installation of Abbot Chigan-kutsu Kyo-On Dukuro Jaeckel Roshi on November 24, 2023.

Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-ji also offers traditional kessei — a three-month period of intensive spiritual training in a Zen monastery — in addition to weeklong sesshin and weekend retreats throughout the year.

[1] Those students who wish to ordain with Chigan Roshi are expected to live at the monastery after ordination for 1,000 days, after which they have the option of staying or going back out into the secular world.

Located about a 3-hour drive north of New York City on 1,400 acres (5.7 km2) near Beecher Lake[1] in a deciduous forest region,[2] Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-ji was established on July 4, 1976.

[2] The facility's upstate mailing address is in the nearby township of Livingston Manor off New York State Route 17 (NY 17).