About Subhana

Subhana Barzaghi has practiced Buddhist meditation for thirty years and is a qualified teacher in two Buddhist traditions: Vipassana Insight Meditation tradition and Zen Buddhist tradition.

She received transmission as a “Roshi” (Zen master) in 1996 from her teachers John Tarrant Roshi and Robert Aitken Roshi. Subhana teaches intensive Zen & Vipassana retreats in Australia and New Zealand and conducts workshops in Sydney.

Subhana is the resident teacher of the Sydney Zen Centre, founder of the Kuan Yin Zen Centre in Lismore and founding teacher of Blue Gum Sangha in Sydney.

Subhana is an author and makes regular contributions to the journal of the Sydney Zen Centre, ‘Mind Moon Circle’ and ‘Vast and Ordinary News’, journal of Melbourne Zen Group.

Her recent publications include:-
Barzaghi, S., Coote, G., Socially Engaged Buddhism in Spirited Practices, Spirituality and the Helping Professions, (2007) Ed. Fran Gale, Natalie Bolzan & Dorothy McRae-McMahon, Allen and Unwin

Barzaghi, S., The spiritual needs of the Aged and Dying: A Buddhist Perspective in Ageing and Spiritually across Faiths and Cultures, (2010) Ed. Elizabeth MacKinlay, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London.

Barzaghi, S., The Journey of a Lay female Zen teacher, in Buddhism in Australia: Traditions in Change, Ed., Michelle Barker, & Christina Rocha, Routledge, 2010.