Getting Started

This website contains over 300 pages and documents, and so might be rather overwhelming for a newcomer to Chan or to the Western Chan Fellowship.

• Visit our library and view the the smaller collection of articles marked 'for Newcomers', or the larger collection of highlighted articles linked from the top of the left menu in the library.
• Read articles by John Crook
  • Introducing Buddhism 
  • What is the WCF 
  • Welcome to Chinese Zen: An Introduction Chinese Buddhism
    • (auf Deutsch) Willkommen im Chinesischen Zen
• Don't forget to read about our
  • Retreats and other events
  • Local Meditation Groups
  • New Chan Forum