Reclaiming the World as Sacred
Our Mission:
Ancient Oaks Zen provides a safe, nurturant and welcoming environment for personal and spiritual development. Our community grows through friendship and offers caring support for each members’ engagement in the world. We share Zen as a way of living that reclaims the world as sacred and embraces it. We offer onsite and online times for group Zen practice, individual private guidance, classes, workshops, retreats, liturgy, and ceremonies. Students who wish can take initiation into Zen Buddhism and the Zen Garland Order. Advanced students can choose to ordain as Zen priests and enter our Teacher Training Track. Ancient Oaks is part of the International Zen Garland Order, founded in 2012 by Roshi Paul Genki Kahn and Roshi Monika Genmitsu Kahn.
Related Sanghas
Circle of the Way - Dokan Sangha
The Zen Garland Order Dokan Sangha is coordinated and facilitated by Dharma Holder Rev. John Mitsudo Mancuso. The Sangha meets online once a week.
Rev. John Mitsudo Mancuso is a Zen Novice Priest with the Zen Garland Order and a Dharma Holder of Roshi Genmitsu. He is married and lives and works in Fishkill, NY.
To get information about Dokan Sangha please send an email to: mitsudo@zengarland.org
Umoya Obomi Spirit of Life
The Zen Garland Order Spirit of Life Hermitage is coordinated and facilitated by David Ando Rosenstein
Ando is a senior student of Roshi Genki. He is married and lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.
To get information about Spirit of Life please send an email to: ando@zengarland.org
Dharma Herz Sangha
The Zen Garland Order Dharma Herz (Dharma Heart) Sangha is coordinated and facilitated by Kai-Uwe Reishi Trollmann.
Reishi is a senior student of Roshi Genmitsu. He is married and lives and works in Duisburg, Germany
To get information about Dharma Herz Sangha please send an email to: reishi@zengarland.org