RETREATS 
... deepening our practice ...
Canterbury
14-22 April 2022
Staveley, Canterbury
Led by Arthur Wells Roshi and Mary Jaksch Roshi
(more information to come).
Golden Bay
4-7 June 2021
Onekaka, Golden Bay
Led by Sean Weaver Sensei
West Coast
22-25 October 2021
Kumara, West Coast
Led by Sean Weaver Sensei
Dunedin
Date to be advised
St Martin's Island, Dunedin
Led by Glenn Wallis Roshi

OUR LINEAGE
Robert Aitken Roshi and his wife Anne founded the Diamond Sangha in 1959 in Hawaii. This lineage now has thirty-seven teachers world-wide including Ross Bolleter Roshi in Perth; Mary Jaksch Roshi, Glenn Wallis Roshi, Arthur Wells Roshi and Sean Weaver Sensei in New Zealand.

Diamond Sangha teachers lead sitting groups and retreats in the USA, Chile, Argentina, Australia, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, England and Germany.

As the lineage has roots in both the Soto and Rinzai schools of Zen, Diamond Sangha teachers offer both Koan study, and Shikantaza ('just sitting').

Diamond Sangha Aotearoa/New Zealand is the New Zealand branch of the Diamond Sangha Zen lineage. The Diamond Sangha is a lay lineage, not a monastic lineage, with the ideal of bringing to our practice the joy and pain of everyday life: the great 'monastery without walls'.

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