Legally, the International Zen-Temple is organized as a non-profit organization (Verein) under the German Civil Code. The corporation is enrolled (eingetragen) in the corporations' register of the District Court of Berlin-Charlottenburg. Thereby, the International Zen-Temple is officially recognized as a body corporate and is entitled to bear the abbreviation "e.V." in its name.

The Revenue Office for Corporations I of the State of Berlin has attested that International Zen-Temple e.V. pursues exclusively religious and charitable purposes and is therefore acknowledged as being of public utility (gemeinnützig, abbr. gem.) under the regulations of German Fiscal Code. Click here...

The statutes of International Zen-Temple e.V., updated 2005 by decision of the general assembly, define in detail the purposes and activities of the Temple, as well as its intern structure. The statutes provide that the abbot of the temple is the supreme spiritual authority, whilst worldly affairs are also deliberated in the executive board and in the general assembly. Both of them convene regularly, the general assembly usually once in a year.

Whenever a meeting of the general assembly takes place, the results of the deliberations are laid down in a record by the secretary of the International Zen-Temple e.V.