Profile
A Community Practising and Teaching Dogen's Zen
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 practice centres (Guelph, Ontario; 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 (intensive training periods), retreats, Dharma Assemblies, residential training, and study and practice of the vast body of traditional Dharma. The Zen Centre of Ottawa also hosts tours and makes available speakers to grade schools and high schools throughout the region. 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.
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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 Hekinganroku, 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. In 2001, the Roshi gave Dharma transmission to Ven. Shikai Zuiko osho-ajari and Ven. Jinmyo Renge osho-ajari.
Ven. Shikai Zuiko o-sensei, Dharma Teacher, received transmission as a Dharma successor to the Roshi in May 2001. She has been practising as student of the Roshi for over three decades, and has presented hundreds of Dharma Talks. She provides monthly Zen instruction to practitioners in prison. Shikai sensei has a background in communications and media, NLP, and Constructive Living.
Ven. Jinmyo Renge osho-ajari, Dharma Teacher, received transmission as a Dharma successor to the Roshi in December 2001, and has been a student of the Roshi’s since 1991. She presents regular Dharma Assemblies and Dharma Talks. She serves as Tenzo and is the editor of the weekly e-Mirror newsletter. Jinmyo osho'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:
