Entrance to the Buddhist Centre, Fleischmarkt 16, 1010 Vienna. The Bodhidharma Zendo is on the first floor.

Rinzai Zen meditation at the Bodhidharma Zendo Vienna with Zen priest and abbot of the Bodhidharma Zendo, Seigaku Kigen Oshō.

Group photograph after a Sesshin, a Zen retreat at the BergZendo Hohe Wand, the retreat centre of the Bodhidharma Zendo.

The “Han”, a traditional wooden sounding board, is hung up during Sesshins and Zazenkais at the BergZendo.

The Japanese Zen master Shōdō Harada Rōshi and abbess ShoE Sensei visit the Bodhidharma Zendo Vienna at the invitation of Seigaku Kigen Oshō.

The Bodhidharma Zendo is also represented, with abbot Kigen Oshō, at the annual Vesakh celebration of the Austrian Buddhist Society.

Only an hour’s drive from Vienna lies the roughly 900-metre-high rock plateau of the Hohe Wand nature park, on which the Zen centre BergZendo stands – just visible as a tiny detail in this picture.

The meditation room of the BergZendo.

Zen practice during a retreat at the BergZendo: the walking meditation (Kinhin) usually takes place outdoors.

The BergZendo offers a magnificent view over the Vienna Alpine arc and down into the plain, as far as Lake Neusiedl. It is open to Zen practitioners, newcomers and seminars close to Buddhism.

Zen practitioners during a three-day Sesshin, led here by guest teacher Chigan-kutsu Kyō-On Dokurō Rōshi, abbot of the New York Zen Studies Society.

Anniversary celebrations in 2023 in the ceremonial hall of the University of Vienna, marking 40 years of state recognition of Buddhism in Austria, organised by the ÖBR.