On America's Bicentennial, July 4, 1976, a Rinzai Zen Buddhist monastery opened deep in the Catskill Mountains of New York State. Situated on 1,400 acres in the Catskill Mountain Forest Preserve, International Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-ji continues to offer an ideal setting for authentic Zen practice to persons of all religious and cultural backgrounds, as well as to lay and ordained Zen students.

Students from all over the world gather to receive traditional monastic training and enjoy the opportunity to actualize true realization and understanding through deep, introspective inquiry. Zen training utilizes the discipline of structured daily zazen and work, with the guidance of Abbot Eido Shimano Roshi and the support of the Sangha (community).