Diamond Sangha

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The Diamond Sangha is an organization of Zen Buddhist centers founded by Robert and Anne Aitken in the living room of their Hawaiʻi home in October of 1959. The organization is known for making the rigors of traditional Zen accessible to practitioners, notably women, throughout the world.

Teachers are committed to the ethical application of the Ten Grave Precepts, and Aitken and his successors continue to encourage interreligious dialogue and socially engaged Buddhism, including peace activism, prison reform, AIDS intervention, equality in gender and sexual orientation, and other issues of social justice.

Today, the Diamond Sangha has affiliate zen centers in South America, Australia, the United States and Europe,