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Yokoji Zen Mountain Center is a year-round Zen Buddhist training and retreat center located in the San Jacinto Mountains of Southern California. It is a 160 acres (65 hectares) of sacred Native American land and wilderness. Founded 1981 by Taizan Maezumi, Roshi as a summer retreat center for the Zen Center of Los Angeles.
The 2.5-acre water body (10,000 m 2) [17] became known as Lake Santa Ynez; the only spring-fed lake within the City of Los Angeles. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] The property remained undeveloped for more than a decade, when the lake was used as a local swimming hole and cattails and reeds grew to screen most of it from view. [ 15 ]
The Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) Encinitas Hermitage and Meditation Gardens is a religious center and tourist attraction in Encinitas, California, United States, created by Paramahansa Yogananda in the 1930s. [2] [3] [4] Its Golden Lotus Tower rises above the white wall along Highway 101 near Swami's Seaside Park.
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.
The Zen Center of Los Angeles (ZCLA), temple name Buddha Essence Temple, is a Zen center founded by Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi in 1967 that practices in the White Plum lineage. ZCLA observes a daily schedule of zazen, Buddhist services, and work practice.
Despite sitting just 90 miles northwest of Los Angeles, the city feels far removed from the nation’s second largest metropolis. ... The coastal retreat is known for its pristine beaches ...
[7] [8] [5] In 1925, he established the international headquarters for SRF/YSS at Mount Washington in Los Angeles, California. [5] [9] [7] The three-story building had originally been opened in 1909 as a hotel. SRF now calls it Mother Center. After Yogananda's death, SRF preserved his bedroom in the building as a shrine. [10] [9]
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.