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The monks manage their ranchlands, operate a cookie bakery, and offer retreat facilities for groups and individuals. A retreat house and guest hermitages are located about 1 mile from the main monastery building. The monastery was founded in 1956 as a foundation established by the Trappist community at St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer ...
Dhammadharini Vihara, a Theravāda monastery located in Santa Rosa. [14] Mettā Forest Monastery, a Theravāda monastery located in Valley Center. [15] Shasta Abbey, a Sōtō Zen monastery located in Mount Shasta. [16] Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, a Sōtō Zen monastery located in Carmel Valley, San Diego. [17]
The Abbey of the Holy Cross in Cañon City, Colorado, is a former monastery of the Order of St. Benedict in the United States. [1] It existed for nearly 120 years, operating such various enterprises as a boarding school for boys and a winery. It is listed on the National Register of Historical Places.
Mount of the Holy Cross is a high and prominent mountain summit in the northern Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.The 14,011-foot (4270.5 m) fourteener is located in the Holy Cross Wilderness of White River National Forest, 6.6 miles (10.7 km) west-southwest (bearing 244°) of the Town of Red Cliff in Eagle County, Colorado, United States.
The property is located in the Red Feather Lakes area of Colorado on 600 acres (2.4 km 2) in the foothills west of Fort Collins.The geographic coordinates are The land was originally developed as the Rocky Mountain Dharma Center, founded by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1971, and operated by his organization, Vajradhatu.
This is a list of Buddhist temples, monasteries, stupas, and pagodas in the United States for which there are Wikipedia articles, sorted by location. See also: Buddhist Churches of America California
The Monasteries of Meteora in Greece are stunningly beautiful. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, the grouping of six monasteries rests on natural sandstone rock pillars.
Early Benedictine monasteries were relatively small and consisted of an oratory, refectory, dormitory, scriptorium, guest accommodation, and out-buildings, a group of often quite separate rooms more reminiscent of a decent-sized Roman villa than a large medieval abbey. A monastery of about a dozen monks would have been normal during this period.