Diamond Sangha

The Diamond Sangha is an organization of Zen Buddhist centers founded by Robert and Anne Aitken in their Hawaiokinai home in October 1959. The organization is known for making the rigors of traditional Zen accessible to practitioners, notably women, throughout the world.

Teachers are committed to the ethical application of the Ten Grave Precepts, and Aitken and his successors continue to encourage inter-religious dialogue and socially engaged Buddhism, including peace activism, prison reform, AIDS intervention, equality in gender and sexual orientation, and other issues of social justice.

Today, the Diamond Sangha has [http://www.diamondsangha.org/Links.htm affiliate zen centers] in South America, Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, the United States and Europe.

ee also

*Buddhism in the United States
*Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States

External links

* [http://www.diamondsangha.org/Links.htm Affiliates of the Diamond Sangha]
* [http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/ZenPages/DiamondSangha.html The Diamond Sangha on the The World-Wide Web Virtual Library]
* [http://www.bpf.org Buddhist Peace Fellowship]
* [http://www.robertaitken.net Robert Aitken]
* [http://anne.robertaitken.net/ Anne Hopkins Aitken]
* [http://www.zencenterofdenver.org/Lineage/ethics.html Teachers Ethics Agreement]