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Diamond Sangha Home Page

The Diamond Sangha is a constallation of Zen Buddhist centers and associations in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and USA. The first and founding Diamond Sangha group was established in Hawaii, USA in October 1959 by Robert and Anne Aitken in a living room of their Hawaii house as a part of the Harada-Yasutani School of Zen (also known as Sanbo Kyodan, or Order of the Three Treasures).

The Sanbo Kyodan line of Zen is based on the teachings of Harada Sogaku Dai'un Roshi, and was founded by Harada Roshi's successor, Yasutani Haku'un Roshi, in Kamakura, Japan, in 1954. Yasutani's independent school of Zen broke with the Soto school in which it was steeped, asserted a position of direct connection with the 13th c. teachings of Dogen Kigen and stopped recognizing the authority of the Soto lineage's ecclesiastical leaders.

The Diamond Sangha, as established by Robert Aitken, who became a Roshi in 1974, represents a lay stream of Soto Zen which also includes aspects of Rinzai Zen, especially the intensive study of koans. It puts emphasis on the use of English in ritual, full equality of women, and constant re-evaluation of authority patterns.

The member centers of the Diamond Sangha agree to observe the December 1999 Diamond Sangha Teachers Circle Ethics Agreement . (Another copy of the agreement is also available).

Communication between Diamond Sangha centers is facilitated by the Diamond-Sangha mailing list, established in 1997 at the University of Queensland. Members of any Diamond Sangha affiliate are eligible to join.

Since Nov 1999 an official Diamond Sangha page is kept (and from time-to-time maintained) in Hawaii.

To join the electronic forum send e-mail
to: majordomo@mailbox.uq.edu.au
message: subscribe Diamond-Sangha your-e-mail-address

The details below are updated on ther basis of input by the members of the Zen groups/centers in question

Adelaide Zen Group Robert G. Joyner Roshi c/o 70 Thomas Street, Unley 5061 Adelaide, AUSTRALIA email: AZG--at--bigpond.com	Canberra Zen Group [no resident teacher] Contact:. Tony Shields, phone (02) 6262-5150 Wednesday evenings fortnightly at 7.45 at the Orana School in Weston Canberra, AUSTRALIA email: tshields--at--netspeed.com.au	Zen Center of Denver Danan Henry Roshi 3101 W. 31st Ave. Denver, CO 80211 USA email: office--at--zencenterofdenver.org	Empty Sky Sangha [no resident teacher] 2100 N. Spring Street Amarillo, TX 79107 USA email: Judith Evans, jbevans--at--tcac.net
Garden Island Sangha [no resident teacher] c/o Lloyd Miyashiro 6585 Waipouli Rd Kapaa, HI 96746 Hawaii, USA Ph. (1) 808-822-4794.	Go'un Zendo [no resident teacher] Lassalle-Haus Bad Schoenbrunn, CH-6313 Edilbach/Zug, SWITZERLAND Ph. (41) 41-757-1414 fax (41) 41-757-1413.	Deep Streams Zen Institute [formerly The Harbor Sangha] Dr Joe Bobrow Roshi 121 Clement St. San Francisco, CA 94118, USA Ph. 415-387-0800	Honolulu Diamond Sangha Nelson Foster Roshi, Michael Kieran Sensei, Robert Aitken Roshi [retired] Palolo Zen Center 2747 Waiomao Road Honolulu, HI 96816 USA ph: (808) 735-1347 email: hsangha--at--aloha.net
Kuan-yin Zen Centre [visiting teacher: Subhana Barzarghi Roshi] 183 Ballina Road Lismore Hts, NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA	Maitai Zendo Mary Jise Jaksch Sensei 4 Mayroyd Terrace, Nelson, NEW ZEALAND email: maitaizen--at--xtra.co.nz	Maui Zendo [no resident teacher] 2860 Liholani Street Pukalini, HI 96768 USA	Melbourne Zen Group [no resident teacher] [visiting teachers: Subhana Barzaghi Roshi and Susan Murphy Roshi] C/- Education Centre, CERES Environmental Park, Cnr Roberts and Stewart Streets, East Brunswick, VIC 3057, AUSTRALIA
Mountain Cloud Zen Center Guiding Teacher: Pat Hawk Roshi 7241 Old Santa Fe Trail Santa Fe, N.M. 87505 USA (505) 988-4396 email: mczenctr--at--aol.com	One Ground Sangha Sister Pia Gyger Roshi Winkelriedstrasse 23 CH-6003 Luzern, SWITZERLAND	Ring of Bone Zendo Nelson Foster Roshi PO Box 510 North San Juan, CA 95960 USA	Seven Thunders Sangha [no resident teacher] [visiting teacher: Pat Hawk Roshi] Oregon USA email: Glenna Pittock (gpittock--at--yahoo.com) email: Dan Hammerstrom (strom--at--ece.ogi.edu)
Springs Mountain Zen Sangha [no resident teacher] [visiting teachers: Joan Sutherland] Colorado Springs, CO, USA	Sydney Zen Centre Subhana Barzaghi Roshi Gillian Coote Sensei Paul Maloney Sensei Sexton Burke Sensei 251 Young Street, Annandale NSW 2038 Sydney, AUSTRALIA email: Gillian Coote (tcoote--at--acay.com.au)	Three Treasures Sangha Jack Duffy Roshi Three Treasures Sangha PO Box 12542 Seattle, WA 98111, USA Phone: (206) 324-5373	Zen Desert Sangha Father Pat Hawk Roshi PO Box 44122 Tucson AZ 85733-4122 Linda Failmezger: (520)319-6260 email: zds--at--dakotacom.net
Wolken und Mond Sangha Rolf Drosten Roshi Friedhofstrasse 1a 51789 Lindlar GERMANY email:hallo--at--wolken-und-mond-sangha.de	Zen Group of Western Australia Ross Bolleter Roshi Ian Sweetman Roshi Perth, WA AUSTRALIA Ph: 0416 055 885 email: mary-zen--at--viacorp.com

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Hiram Abff, Robert Aitken Roshi, Joseph Bobrow Roshi, Susan [family name redacted on the bearer's request], Tony Coote, Rolf Drosten Roshi, Bartlett Durand, Subhana Barzaghi Roshi, Judith Evans, E. Kirk Fisher, James I. Ford, Paul Gardiner, Iris Hagemann-Schimitzek, Arlette Hitz, Mary Jaksch, Joan Yamaguchi, Jeffrey Jongeward, Robert Joyner Roshi, Daniel M. Kaplan, Joe Koudelka, Richard J. Laue, David Lee, Susan Lutzke, Shannon McCarthy, Joe Montani, Carol Neese, Adam Payne, Glenna Pittock, Wayne Rankin, Brett Shand, Michael Sierchio, Bill Sortino, Michelle Spuler, Clive Williams.

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