Alexandria: Potomac Zen Sangha - Member of the World Zen Fellowship, which offers meditation and dharma teaching. Affiliated with the World Zen Fellowship. www.worldzen.org/page2.html
Blacksburg and Radford: New River Zen Community - Soto center in the White Plum Lineage of Roshi Bernard Tetsugen Glassman and Hakuyu Taizan Maezuni Roshi. Offers weekly zazen and periodic retreats. www.healingzen.com
Charlottesville: Blue Ridge Zen Group - Rinzai Zen group offering daily zazen practice in Charlottesville, and periodic retreats at its Flattop Mountain Retreat Center. home.adelphia.net/~brzen
Charlottesville: Cloud Floating Free Sangha - A meditation community practicing in the tradition of Vietnamese Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, led by members of the International Order of Interbeing. Offers weekly zazen. www.wiseheartcoach.com/cloudfloating.htm
Delaplane Virginia Zen Group - Rinzai Zen group in the lineage of Joshu Sasaki Roshi. Offers weekly zazen practice, and periodic sesshins. www.piedmontparish.org/pages/zen.html
Fairfax: Mindfulness Practice Center of Fairfax - Mindfulness Practice in the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh. Offers daily group meditation at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax. www.plumvillage.org/mpcf
Falls Church: Dae Do Sah - Member of the Kwan Um School of Zen. Offers weekly zazen and periodic retreats. www.zenmind.org/daedosah.html
Fort Belvoir: Chua Hoa Nghiem Vietnamese Buddhist Temple - Vietnamese Zen lineage temple serving the local Vietnamese community and anyone else interested in Buddhism and awakening consciousness. www.speakeasy.org/~tchilders/mgl_html/hnp.html
Richmond: Ekoji Buddhist Sangha Zen Group - Offers twice weekly zazen practice. Not affiliated with any one school or teacher, but the group hosts visits by teachers from a variety of lineages, including frequent visits by Taitaku Patricia Phelan Sensei, priest from the Chapel Hill Zen Center. Pat practices in the Soto lineage and tradition of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. www.ekojirichmond.org/Zen/zen.htm
Richmond: Still Water Zen Center - Member of the Kwan Um School of Zen. Offers weekly zazen practice and periodic retreats. www.mindspring.com/~bellsound
Zen Centers in Virginia - Complete list of Zen centers in Virginia maintained by the International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism. www.iijnet.or.jp/iriz/zen_centers/centers_data/usaNW.htm#VIRGINIA
