For several minutes, about 75 teachers and students of Zen Buddhism stood in meditation in the newly constructed temple surrounded by the redrock monoliths that make up Capitol Reef National Park.
They came from Holland, France, Columbia, Venezuala, Brazil, Mexico and Canada to celebrate the dedication Wednesday of the Torrey Zendo Meditation Center, the dream of former Utah Supreme Curt Justice Michael Zimmerman and his wife, Diane Hamilton.
It seemed a perfect assimilation between the inner-self discipline of Zen and the awe-inspired surroundings of colorful domes and serenely deep canyons that Native Americans once called the Land of the Sleeping Rainbows.