Sanneji

The name

A few words about our temple’s name here in Sannäs, Karjaa. After going through some possible name variants we decided to give the name Sanneji for this Zen-training facility. Now for some weeks we have called this Sanneji and it just feels right. 

As you may notice it sounds much like Sannäs, the geographical name of the place, and that was what we hoped would happen with the new name. 

So, it became Sanneji. 

Sanneji = 参根寺 

San 参 means e.g. ”going” and ”visiting” (same kanji is in my name ;). 

Ne 根 means e.g. ”root”, ”source, ”origin” and ”one’s true nature. 

Ji 寺 stands for the Buddhist temple.

”Sann” in Swedish means ”true”.

Ps. I updated our new name also for in the two previous posts.