In reality many Zen communities use both methods depending on the teacher and students.

During his years in San Francisco, Katagiri sometimes toyed with the idea of opening up his own Zen community nearby.

The military mess halls are gone, replaced by vegan-friendly Greens, a restaurant run by a Zen community.

After his own master died, he started a Zen community in the woods of Maine, an arrow's flight from the sea.

On a table in the main parlor I found a memoir of life in an unnamed American Zen community.

In California with the hope of establishing a Zen community, the group farmed strawberries in Hayward, California with little success.

By 1910 the delegation's Zen community had proven unsuccessful.

The Boundless Way appears to be the first Western Zen community to attempt to blend several lineages into a single organization.

There have been some questions raised about her authority to teach Zen from some members of the Zen community.

"The Zen community is overreacting," Town Supervisor James Trippe said last week.