RETREATS 
... deepening our practice ...
Christchurch
Thurs 1st to Wed 7th April 2021
Easter Sesshin
Staveley
Canterbury
Lead by Arthur Wells Roshi and Mary Jaksch Roshi
When: Thursday April 1 to  Wednesday 7th April 2021
More information and registration form will be available closer to the time.
Golden Bay
date to be advised
Ekodo Retreat
Shambala
Golden Bay
Lead by Sean Weaver, Arthur Wells and Jo Campbell
When: A virtual retreat is currently being organised.

Registration and further information will be available here.
Dunedin
date to be advised
Rohatsu Sesshin
St Martin's Island
Dunedin
Lead by Glenn Wallis Roshi
.When:  Oct/Nov 2020
Registration form and further information available later.
Virtual Retreat
Virtual Retreat to be held instead of Strathean this year.
Otaki Sesshin
at Strathean House is cancelled for 2020
A Virtual Retreat lead by Mary Jaksch Roshi and Arthur Wells Roshi will be held in its place.
Registration Form, Date  and more information will be available soon.

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'.
OUR PRACTICE

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