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I did a 10 day sesshin in the sangha of Stephane Kosen Thibaut, who is in the Deshimaru lineage, and they didn't expect me to receive the precepts to do the sesshin there. I also did one sesshin after another with the soto teacher Coen Shingetsu, I'm not sure what her exact lineage is, she practiced briefly with Taizan Maezumi and also with Shundo Aoyama in Japan, and she didn't expect me to receive the precepts in order to do the sesshin either. And with Coen Shingetsu, they offered all kinds of activities in their sangha in addition to the sesshin, but due to a bunch of circumstances, I did the sesshins and rarely participated in much else, and no one ever said I couldn't just keep doing that.
With other sanghas, I have no idea what their policy is.
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