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Iten Shinnyo
Anna Maria Iten Shinnyo lives and works in Florence directing as Master and spitiyual gide Shinnyo-ji Temple, named by her Reverend Master Tenrai Ryushin Azuma Roshi "Daijo-ji Italia Betsuin" that means Italian department of the Kanazawa Daijo-ji Monastery in Japan.
Iten Shinnyo directs the Zazen meetings that take place in the Temple and with the aim of spreading Zen, she promoted the Cultural Association Florence Zen Centre.
On June 21st 2008 in Eihei-ji with the Zuise Ceremony and on June 22nd in Soji-ji with the Zuise Ceremony – the two principal Temples of the Sōtō Zen tradition – she got the Jyūshoku degree becoming officially Shinnyo-ji Abbot
In June 2008 she received the Shihō, Dharma transmission – Dempo – from her Zen Master Tenrai Ryushin Azuma Roshi becoming Master herself in the Japanese Sōtō Tradition.
On April 16th 2007 with Hossen Ceremony she became Shusso, getting the degree of Zagen in Sōtō Shu Japan.
On August 2004 received with the Tokudo Ceremony the Zen monk vows from her Master Tenrai Ryushin Azuma Roshi, Abbot of Daijo-ji Temple of Kanazawa, Japan, getting the Jyōza degree and becoming member of Japanese Zen Sōtō School with the Buddhist name Iten Shin-nyo, in which letter "I" stands for Italy, "ten" means sky, "Shin" is the ideogram of truth and "nyo" means this so: Italian sky this is truth.
On August 2002 in Daijo-ji Temple she met her Master, at the time vice-Abbot of the Temple. This meeting represented the beginning of her path that brought her twice a year in Daijo-ji for long training and formation periods leaded by her Master.
From 1995 to 2000 she practiced Zen leaded by Master Tetsugen Serra in the Enso-ji il Cerchio Temple of Milan, receiving the Bodhisattva Vows in Jukai Ceremony on 25th September 1999.
In the end of the 80's she started her meditation practice following Himalayan Tradition of Swami Rama a Rishikesh, India.
Later she approached to Zen Buddhism studying classical text and starting her personal search of her Master.
