The Zen Peacemaker Order and the Three Tenets are skillful means that were created by Roshi Glassman and Roshi Holmes as an expression of their Buddhist vows to live an awakened life and alleviate suffering – a culmination of 2,500 years of direct transmission by committed practitioners, teacher-to-student, across generations and continents, reaching all the way back to Shakya-Indian master Siddhārtha Gautama, the Buddha.