Chan Meditation Roadmap

Our Style of Retreats

We offer meditation retreats in the style of the Dharma Drum Lineage of Chan Buddhism, balancing serious, strict practice with flexibility and gentleness. While maintaining the spirit of traditional retreats held in Chan monasteries of ancient China, our retreats also incorporate a variety of activities suited to contemporary people's needs. Our retreats are designed to minimize all potential distractions, allowing you to wholeheartedly devote your energies to using the method of pract...

The Dharma Drum Chan Meditation Roadmap

In order to avoid discouraging the newer practitioner (and to maintain the quality of our intensive retreats for the advanced practitioners), we carefully screen all applicants for suitability. For new comers we encourage a strategy of gradually building up to an intensive retreat. The Dharma Drum "roadmap" suggests an optimal plan for journeying through your Chan training. Ideally, a practitioner should progress through our events in this order: Meditation Class ...