An inclusive family-friendly community with authentic Zen practice for all.
A Soto Zen community with the Rinzai koan tradition.
Plan Your Visit
Wednesdays 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Beginner’s Class at 7:30pm
Sundays 11:00am - 1:00pm
Beginner’s Class at 10:00am
Beginners always welcome! The Buddhist Temple of Toledo is a Zen Buddhist Sangha that provides dharma training. Our Wednesday and Sunday weekly services are open to the public (and on YouTube) and include sutras, Zen meditation, dharma talks, and interviews with transmitted teachers. Our guiding teachers are Abbott Jay Rinsen Weik Roshi and Rev. Karen Do’on Weik Roshi.
See our Stay Home When Sick guidance to help plan your visit.
Visit Us Online
Our Sangha, or community of practice, live streams all of our public services and workshops.
Consider watching via YouTube Live stream or through one of our Zoom events.
Our online practice is fully interactive. When you join our live stream, you are practicing in real-time with the Sangha. We light incense, bow together, and share in the Dharma. You don't need any prior experience—just a quiet space to sit
Hundreds of Recorded Talks
"For nearly two decades, our guiding teachers, Abbot Jay Rinsen Weik Roshi and Rev. Karen Do’on Weik Roshi, have explored the depths of Zen practice through weekly Dharma talks. These recordings offer a clear, direct, and often humorous look at how traditional Soto Zen and Rinzai koan practice integrate seamlessly into modern daily life, relationships, and work.
Dive Into Practice
Ango, or "Peaceful Dwelling," is a traditional 90-day period of intensified practice. At the Buddhist Temple of Toledo, Ango is designed specifically for householders living in the modern world. It is a seasonal invitation to deepen your commitment to the Dharma by establishing a personal practice vow, whether that means committing to daily zazen, attending weekly services, or dedicating your everyday work to the path of awakening.
“The BuddhaDharma empowers us to face what is arising in each moment, frees us from grasping at what is arising in each moment, and shows us how to truly care for what is arising in each moment.”
— Jay Rinsen Weik, Abbot
Our Mission
The Zen Buddhist Temple of Toledo, under the guidance of its lineage-transmitted teachers, provides teachings, training and support in the disciplines, practices and devotions of Mahayana Buddhism as adapted to Western contemporary life. Through these efforts, we seek to creatively manifest equanimity, compassion and wisdom for the sake of all beings.
Statement of Inclusivity
As Mahayana Buddhists, we recognize that our own liberation is bound up with that of all other sentient beings. We welcome and affirm all who come here to seek the Way and celebrate our differences while harmonizing the one and the many. When we see expressions of bigotry, hatred, and oppression in our own minds and interpersonally, we vow to respond with wisdom and compassion in our thoughts, words, and actions to put an end to the suffering caused by them.
The Buddhist Temple of Toledo acknowledges that human suffering is a condition made worse by bias and prejudice toward people based on race, ethnicity, country of origin, income, class background, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, body type, disability, and other marginalized identities. We commit to becoming a diverse, equitable, inclusive, and anti-racist institution where Buddhist practice is made as accessible as possible.
We commit to embodying diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility throughout the Buddhist Temple of Toledo’s teachings, practice, organizational culture, policies, and operations as a manifestation of our vow to awaken together with all beings.
May we, together, alleviate the fear, hatred, selfishness and delusion in our world.
Contact Us
Buddhist Temple of Toledo
3902 Emmajean Rd.
Toledo, Ohio 43607
Phone: (567) 297-0108