The Edmonton Meditation Group

The Edmonton Meditation group, founded in 1979 and registered as a CRA charitable organization in 2004,  practices this form of medidation through our lineage of teachers.

These teachers include retired lay minister Rod Walker, who lead the Edmonton group for decades: Reverend Master Koten Benson, who founded the Lions Gate Buddhist Priorty in Lytton, BC and who serves as our head monk; his teacher Reverend Master Jiyu-Kennett, who brought our practice from Malaysia and Japan and who worked tirelessly to help us establish our own practice here founding Shasta Abbey and the Order; Keido Chisan Koho Zenji, Reverend Master Jiyu-Kennett’s Japanese teacher at Soji-ji (Soto Zen of Japan) who transmitted the Dharma and our practice to her and encouraged her to pass on the teaching to those of us in the West who came seeking the Dharma; Seck Kim Seng, the Chinese Buddhist Master who ordained Reverend Master Jiyu-Kennett in Malaysia; Keizan Jokin, who was instrumental in making Soto Zen accessible to the people of Japan; Eihei Dogen, who brought the practice of Soto Zen from China to Japan; Bodhidharma, who brought the teachings of the Zen tradition from India to China; and, of course, it also includes the Buddha himself.

Here are some links to biographical sketches of some of these important teachers: An annotated chart of our lineage ancestors.