Bernd Bender

Bernd Bender is the founder and resident priest of Akazienzendo and has practiced Zen since 1987. He practiced for eighteen years at the San Francisco Zen Center, where he was ordained as a priest in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki, and received Dharma Transmission in 2017. He is authorized to teach and to ordain practitioners within this lineage.

Since 2012, Bernd has been based in Berlin, offering Zen meditation, classes on Buddhist practice, as well as secular meditation seminars. He says, “Zen offers a profound way to explore and express our human potential, beyond religious or secular frameworks.”

Akazienzendo Berlin Website