Major Schools

Major Schools Links

• Buddhist Peace Fellowship
  
• Community of Mindful Living Provides support for individuals and meditation groups worldwide who wish to practice in the Thich Nhat Hanh tradition.
  
• Zen Peacemaker Community A community of peacemakers, founded by Roshi Bernie Glassman and Sensei Sandra Jishu Holmes, practicing a vision of peace through meditation and the Three Core Tenets, the Zen Peacemaker Order provides an environment for the realization and actualization of peacemaking and the enlightened way.
  
• Schools of Zen Buddhism Graphical depiction of the historic schools.
  
• Zen Mountain Monastery An American Zen Buddhist monastery and training center for monastics and lay practitioners. Each month an introductory weekend of Zen training is offered, as well as a week-long silent intensive meditation retreat (sesshin.) Throughout the year, the regular daily schedule is supplemented with retreats in the Zen arts, martial arts, Buddhist studies, and other areas thought to be relevant and supportive to practitioners. Students can train in either full-time or part-time residency or as nonresidents whose practice at home is fueled by periodic visits to the Monastery and the support of sitting together with others in one of the affiliate centers/groups of the Society of Mountains and Rivers Order.
  
• Zen Centers Affiliated with the San Francisco Zen Center
  
• Hakuin School
  
• Diamond Sangha Constellation of Zen Buddhist centers and associations in Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and USA. The first and founding Diamond Sangha group was established in Hawaii, USA in 1959 by Robert and Anne Aitken in a living room of their Hawaii house as part of the Harada-Yasutani School of Zen (also known as Sanbo Kyodan, or Order of the Three Treasures).
  
• Rinzai School Lineage diagram.
  
• Soto Zen International Official homepage of the Soto school of Zen.
  
• International Zen Association - United Kingdom Started in 1986 by a monk and nun who followed Deshimaru Roshi, a Japanese Soto Zen Master. The IZAUK is an umbrella organisation connecting Dojos (places of practice) around Great Britain. The IZAUK is a member of the Association Zen Internationale.
  
• AZI: The Association Zen Internationale The International Zen Association (AZI; in French, l'Association Zen Internationale, or AZI) is composed of Master Deshimaru's disciples, as well as all the dojos and zazen groups whose coordinators practice together regularly at the Zen Temple of La Gendronniere during the major annual sessions. A cultural association founded in 1970 by Master Taisen Deshimaru to support his mission, the International Zen Association has as its goal the dissemination of Zen practice and teaching as transmitted by Master Deshimaru, in an effort to help today's civilization resolve the serious crisis it is facing. The AZI is part of the Soto Zen school and is recognized by the Japanese Zen authorities.
  
• Order of Buddhist Contemplatives The Order of Buddhist Contemplatives, dedicated to the practice of the Serene Reflection Meditation tradition.
  
• Order of the Prairie Wind An independent order of ordained Soto Zen Buddhist priests founded by Rev. Nonin Chowaney.
  
• The Kwan Um School of Zen Information on our School, its teachers, publications, zen centers, retreats, etc.
  
• Soto Zen Training Soto Zen training and spiritual Developing. Zazen as the direct way to penetrate true-self, and activate it in daily life, for the benefit of all people, in a creative and compassionate way.
  
• Naropa Institute Private, non-profit liberal arts college in Boulder, Colorado characterized by its unique Buddhist educational heritage.
  
• Harada-Yasutani School Also known as the Sanbo Kyodan school.
  
• Ordinary Mind Zen School Intends to manifest and support the practice of the Awakened Way as expressed in the teaching of Charlotte Joko Beck. The school is composed of Charlotte Joko Beck, her Dharma Successors, and teachers and successors that they, as individuals, have formally authorized. There is no affiliation with other Zen groups or religious denominations; however, membership in this school does not preclude individual affiliation with other groups. Within the school there is no hierarchy of Dharma Successors.
  
• Soto School
  
• Soto Zen Sect History
  
• The Everyday Zen Foundation: A New Way to Study Zen Together The Everyday Zen Foundation was founded in the year 2000 to support the dharma communities of Zen teacher and poety Zoketsu Norman Fischer.
  
• Zen Studies Society