Part of a special section on Buddhist Chaplaincy in the United States and Japan. Editors’ note: Rev. Dr. Daijaku Kinst established the Buddhist chaplaincy program at the Institute of Buddhist Studies and served as the Noboru and Yaeko Hanyu Professor of Buddhist Chaplaincy from 2015 to 2022. She is a Sōtō Zen priest and guiding teacher of the Ocean Gate Zen…