About AZC

Update: Please call 907-563-4936, for Zoom meeting ID# and password for online sittings. All events for AZC are on Zoom at this time due to COVID-19.

Online offerings, including Sunday Service, Morning Sits, and Book Club will take place on Zoom and are published on Meet-Up. Find our full schedule and how to connect here.

In addition to AZC offerings, we wanted to share some upcoming opportunities for extended sitting offered on Zoom. Mountain Lamp Community in Washington state is holding online Sesshin: September 5-12, led by Genmyo’s Diamond Sangha teacher, Jack Duffy.

Registration is open for this opportunity to deepen your practice, as you are able; full or part-time.

Registration online and by downloadable form can be found at this link: https://three-treasures-sangha.org/registration-for-7-day-practice-at-home-intensive/

Schedule for 7-Day Practice @ Home Intensive with Jack Duffy

Sept 5, 2020 – September 12, 2020:

        Saturday, September 5:
         5:30pm—supper & clean-up
         7:00—cautions and zoom ground rules, check-in
         7:30—zazen
          9:20—closing

        Sunday-Friday:
         6:00am—-wake-up, exercise & tea
         6:45— Dai’o Kokushi: On Zen & zazen
         7:20—-dokusan
         8:45—breakfast & samu
         10:30—sutras
         11:00—zazen
         12:30pm—-lunch
          2:30—zazen
         3:05—teisho & zazen
         4:00—-dokusan
         4:30—home samu &/or exercise
         5:00—zazen
         5:30—supper
          7:30—-zazen
         8:00—dokusan
         9:20—closing

Saturday, September 12– same until 11:00

11:00—zazen and sosan
12:44—Closing Ceremony

About the Anchorage Zen Community

The mission of the Anchorage Zen Community is to realize, embody, and communicate the teachings of the Buddha as conveyed by the Soto school. Anchorage Zen Community strives to integrate formal Zen practice and everyday life for personal and social transformation.

Nirvana is here, before your eyes
This very place is the Lotus Land
This very body the Buddha
– Hakuin Zenji

For thirty years, small groups of people have been practicing the way of the Buddha here in Anchorage. We have carried our practice into our daily lives as we have cleaned creeks, visited prisoners, celebrated Buddha’s birthday and enlightenment, held services and activities for children, organized interfaith potlucks, and sat with the dying and chanted for the dead.

The current head priest of the community is Genmyo Zeedyk. She joined us in January 2012.

In the midst of the busyness of life, we continue to offer a place to practice just sitting in silence. We invite you to join us.

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