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Mount Baldy Zen Center (MBZC) is a Rinzai Zen monastery of the Nyorai-nyokyo sect, located in the San Gabriel Mountains of the Angeles National Forest region on 4.5 acres (18,000 m 2) and founded in 1971 by Kyozan Joshu Sasaki. The monastery—once a Boy Scout camp—became famous when musician Leonard Cohen joined the community in 1994.
Fo Guang Shan Hsi Lai Temple (Chinese: 佛光山西來寺; pinyin: Fóguāngshān Xīlái Sì) is a mountain monastery in the northern Puente Hills, Hacienda Heights, Los Angeles County, California. The name Hsi Lai means "coming west". Hsi Lai Temple is a branch of Fo Guang Shan, a Buddhist organization from Taiwan. It is the order's first ...
Essential Buddhism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs and Practices. Simons and Schuster. ISBN 0-671-04188-6. OCLC 47054191. Preston, David L. (1988). The Social Organization of Zen Practice: Constructing Transcultural Reality. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-35000-X. OCLC 16685057. Seager, Richard Hughes (1999). Buddhism in America. Columbia ...
Zenshuji follows the 2,500-year-old teachings of Gautama Buddha as passed down by Koso Dogen Zenji (1200–1253) and Taiso Keizan Zenji (1268–1325) who are recognized as the founding patriarchs of Soto Zen.
It is one of the first Chan Buddhist temples in the United States, and one of the largest Buddhist communities in the Western Hemisphere. The city is situated in Talmage, California, a rural community in southeastern Mendocino County about 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Ukiah and 110 miles (180 km) north of San Francisco. It was one of the first ...
Daifukuji Soto Zen Mission (Japanese) in Honalo, Hawaii – on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places So Shim Sa Zen Center (Korean) in Plainfield, New Jersey This is a list of Buddhist temples , monasteries , stupas , and pagodas in the United States for which there are Wikipedia articles, sorted by location.
Tzu Chi USA, a Buddhist nonprofit, has been mobilizing its members as well, gathering donations and supplies for disaster relief and organizing an interfaith prayer on Jan. 7 at their San Gabriel ...
Koyasan Beikoku Betsuin (高野山米国別院, Kōyasan Beikoku Betsuin, "Koyasan United States Branch Temple"), also known as Koyasan Buddhist Temple, is a Japanese Buddhist temple in the Little Tokyo district of Downtown Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1912, it is one of the oldest existing Buddhist temples in the North ...