Dai Bai Zan Chō Bō Zen Ji 大梅山聴法禅寺 (“The Listening to the Dharma Zen Temple on Great Plum Mountain”) is a diverse community doing deep spiritual inquiry through silent meditation and caring action for the benefit of all beings, great and small, animate and inanimate. was founded in Seattle, WA by Zen Master Genki Takabayashi. Genki Roshi (Senior Priest) was invited by the Seattle Zen Center (founded by Dr. Glenn Webb, at the time a University of Washington Art History professor) to become the resident teacher in the fall of 1977.  He accepted, and early in 1984 formalized his teaching style around a small group of students and founded Cho Bo Zen Ji, which had its opening ceremony on 10/1/84.