Subhana Barzaghi

Subhana Barzaghi was the first female Zen Rōshi in the Diamond Sangha to be given teaching status in Australia and around the world. She achieved this status in 1996.

Education Barzaghi has a Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences from Charles Sturt University,

Career From 1988 to 1992, Barzaghi worked at the Lismore Base Hospital as a Sexual Assault Counsellor as well as being a generalist counsellor for the Lismore and District Women's Health Centre.

Barzaghi was a founding member of Bodhi Farm, an intentional alternative spiritual community which was started in 1977. Barzaghi relationship to food has been deepened through the practice of oryoki. Oryoki is a practise of mindful eating in the Zen tradition. Barzaghi notes that mindfulness deepens the spirit of oryoki because "by slowing down and being really present in your experience, it enhances all the senses."

Barzaghi is a senior guiding teacher in the Insight Meditation tradition in Australia, offering a range of meditation workshops and retreats. Barzaghi is the Director and co-founder of Insight Meditation Institute Inc., a training institute which offers Buddhist based mindfulness and compassion teacher teaching and a Dharma Teacher training and mentoring program.

Barzaghi was one of the original members of the Sydney Zen Centre located in Annandale NSW, Barzaghi is a Roshi in the Diamond Sangha, a guiding Roshi for the Sydney Zen Centre and Melbourne Zen Group. Barzaghi teaches intensive Zen sesshins, week-end worships and regular weekly programs. Barzaghi is also a writer contributing articles to the quarterly journal of the Sydney Zen Centre 'Mind Moon Circle' and other publications.

Publications (Dharma poetry)