Comment by awakeningoffaith on 21/01/2025 at 23:48 UTC*

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View submission: Call for online sanghas/teachers

I was the one who had that list. Here it is. I define online training as not just zoom zazen but also being able to interview with the teacher and receive instructions. This, after all, is what defines zen training, the meeting of teacher and student.

Most highly recommended teacher of the list. Sozui trained with Harada Roshi for decades in a Japanese Rinzai monastery and she received Inka recently and now she's a fully transmitted Roshi. Online practice, talks, open question and answer sessions and one on one interviews on demand. https://staging.hvzc.org/calendar-2-2-2-2/

Zen Studies Society, offers Rinzai Zen daily practice, online teishos, retreats, also one on one formal interviews with teachers https://zenstudies.org/zss-digital-meetings/

Highly recommended Soto training from Canada. They have a very stable and well developed online support system, and a great teacher. https://wwzc.org/long-distance-training-program

Hyon Gak Sunim of Zen Center Regensburg, offering Korean Zen. He has an online course, and he offers online retreats every once in a while. I'm not sure if he's offering interviews. https://www.mirrorofzen.com/[1] https://zen-center-regensburg.com/online-retreats/[2]

1: https://www.mirrorofzen.com/

2: https://zen-center-regensburg.com/online-retreats/

Online support of Kwan Um Zen is well developed, and available to everyone. Korean Zen in the lineage of he famous late Seungsahn Haengwon. https://www.kwanumzenonline.org/membership

Tallahassee chan center and Guo Gu offer a variety of online courses and retreats in Chan Buddhism in Dharma Drum lineage of Sheng Yen and practice. For anyone who completes a retreat with him there's a WhatsApp group to chat with other practitioners and also ask Guo Gu Laoshi any questions. https://tallahasseechan.org/[3] https://guogulaoshi.com/[4]

3: https://tallahasseechan.org/

4: https://guogulaoshi.com/

London Chan group is connected to Dharma Drum and Guo Gu. They invite Chang Wu Fashi, Guo Gu and other Chan teachers from Sheng Yen lineage regularly for instructions and questions. https://londonchanmeditation.org/

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Comment by loripittbull at 22/01/2025 at 17:20 UTC

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So many online Zen centers do not offer dokusan! I will check these out !