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Benevolent Zen Sangha (BEN) holds regular zazen (meditation) sessions on most Monday nights at 7:00 pm on Zoom, and on the second Monday of the month at the First Unitarian Church, parish house at 1 Benevolent St., Providence, Rhode Island.

Our guiding teacher, James Cordova, joins us on Zoom on Thursday mornings 7-8 AM to give a dharma talk or conduct dokusan.

We are on Facebook @BenevolentZen and Instagram @Benevolent_Zen.

All are welcome! 

Benevolent Zen Sangha (BEN) is part of Dharma Wheel Asanga, an affinity organization of peers in the combined lineage that derives from Rev. Master Jiyu-Kennett, the first western female Soto Zen priest who served twenty-six years as Abbess and spiritual director of Shasta Abbey in California and who was dharma heir to Keido Chisan Koho Zenji, and the Sanbo Kyodan (“Association of the Teaching of the Three Treasures”) Zen Community through Robert Aitken Roshi, founder of the Diamond Sangha in Hawaii, and dharma heir to Koun Yamada Roshi, one of the three founders of the Sanbo Kyodan. The Dharma Wheel Asanga models itself on the White Plum Asanga, an affinity organization of peers in the lineage of Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi, Roshi, who chose the term “asanga” to infer “outside the Sangha” with the meaning of “taking the widest possible view.

​Among the core values of the Asanga is to make known to our students practice and study opportunities offered by our various Sanghas, which they can self-select to attend, including:​​ daily and weekly sittings, Dogen study groups, precepts study and jukai ceremonies, priest training, teacher training, advanced koan study (kenshukai), zazenkai and sesshin, and engaged Buddhism.

The following fully transmitted teachers are members of the Dharma Wheel Asanga:

Benevolent Zen Zoom instructions. General questions — benzen.pvd at gmail.com