Profile
The White Wind Zen Community provides an ongoing environment of Zen study and training for those living in Ottawa, Canada as well as for those living at a distance.
The Community was founded in 1985, and is the Sangha of students practising in Ven. Anzan Hoshin roshi’s Lineage of Dogen’s Zen at the Zen Centre of Ottawa (Dainen-ji, the main monastery) and its Branch Centres in Saint John, New Brunswick; Wolfville, Nova Scotia; and Harrow, England. The Community was named after the Hakukaze-ji monastery of Anzan Hoshin roshi’s Teacher, the late Ven. Yasuda Joshu Dainen Hakukaze. It includes the Northern Mountain Order (the monastic core of the community) and a lay community of formal, general, associate and public students.
Programs
Programs at Dainen-ji (Zen Centre of Ottawa), the main monastery of White Wind Zen Community, include daily sittings, sesshin and O-sesshin (intensive training periods), retreats, Dharma Assemblies, residential training, and study and practice of the vast body of traditional Dharma.
Through the Long Distance Training Program, people living all over the world are part of the Sangha of students studying and practising under the direction of the Roshi’s Lineage.
Read hundreds of Dharma Texts online on the White Wind Zen Community website.
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Located in Ottawa? Attend an Introduction to Zen workshop
Live outside Ottawa? Practice through the Long Distance Training Program
Teachers
Ven. Anzan Hoshin roshi is the Dharma-heir of the late Ven. Yasuda Joshu Dainen Hakukaze daiosho. The Roshi has translated over forty fascicles from Dogen’s Shobogenzo as well as the Hekiganroku, Shoyoroku, the Himitsu Shobogenzo and Denkoroku koan collections, essays by Bodhidharma and other Chan Masters, as well as Tibetan Dzogchen and Mahamudra texts. He has presented thousands of teisho and commentaries on these Dharma texts. He retired from public teaching in 1991 to devote himself entirely to the Transmission of the Teachings and training of monastics and formal students.
Ven. Jinmyo Renge sensei received inka, or the Seal of Authenticity as a Zen Teacher, from Ven. Anzan Hoshin roshi in May of 2021. She has been a student of the Roshi since 1991. She presents Dharma Assemblies, Dharma Talks and teisho. She serves as Tenzo and is the editor of the weekly e-Mirror newsletter. Jinmyo sensei’s background includes long study in Sufism, Islam, Hinduism and the Gurdjieff Work.
Practice Advisors
Four Practice Advisors have been trained and authorized by the Roshi to guide people through the beginning stages of Zen practice:
