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- Bellflower: Sangha of the Compassionate Heart - Soto Zen center offering daily Zen sittings.
www.geocities.com/bellflowerzendo
- Berkeley Zen Center - Soto lineage. Offers an extensive practice schedule.
www.berkeleyzencenter.org
- Berkeley: Empty Gate Zen Center - Founded in 1977, member of Kwan Um School.
www.emptygatezen.com
- Berkley: Sixth Patriarch Zen Center - Offers daily zazen practice and frequent retreats, in the Chogye lineage of Ku San Sunim.
www.zenhall.org
- Berkley: Dharma Realm Buddhist Youth - High school, college, and graduate students and young working adults who are interested in applying Buddhist principles to their daily lives. This community of young practitioners supports each others spiritual cultivation and inquiry into lifes deeper meaning in a friendly and open atmosphere.
www.drby.net
- Caspar: Monday Night Sangha - Sitting group affiliated with Dharma Cloud.
www.dharmacloud.com/Coast%20Sangha/mns_top.htm
- Cobb: Myoko Ni Sorin - First Rinzai convent in US. Affiliated with Rinzai-ji.
www.myokonisorin.org
- Costa Mesa: Zen Center of Orange County - Offers daily zazen practice and periodic retreats.
www.zcoc.org
- El Monte: Mahayana Zengong - Offers traditional Ch'an and Chi-Kung practices resulting in a complete Buddhist teaching of mind-body unification, as transmitted by Master Miao-Kung.
www.zengong.org
- Escondido: Deer Park Dharma Center - Vietnamese Zen center in the lineage of Thich Nhat Hanh and a member of the Unified Buddhist Church.
www.plumvillage.org/DeerPark/About_the_DeerPark_DharmaCenter.htm
- Hacienda Heights: Hsi Lai Temple - Practices Humanistic Buddhism, an integration of Ch'an Buddhism (self-power) and Pure Land Buddhism (other-power).
www.hsilai.org
- Lafayette: Buddha Gate Monastery - A Zen monastery in SF Bay area, in the traditional Chinese Ch'an lineage. Offers Zen and meditation classes and lectures, and meditation retreats in both English and Chinese.
www.buddhagate.org
- Long Beach: Ocean Eyes Zen Center (Hae An Soen Won) - Member of the Kwan Um School of Zen. Offers regular zazen, dharma talks, and interviews.
www.oezc.com
- Los Angeles: Dharma Zen Center - Member of the Kwan Um School of Zen. Offers daily zazen practice.
www.dharmazen.com
- Los Angeles: Gay Zen Buddhist Group - The Group's purpose is to introduce interested persons to the teachings of Zen; and to how a non-sexist and non-homophobic spiritual practice can enhance one's life.
members.aol.com/_ht_a/gayzenla/myhomepage
- Los Angeles: Hazy Moon Zen Center (Koun-ji Temple) - Soto temple in the lineage of Maezumi Roshi. Offers regular weekly programs and periodic meditation intensives.
www.hazymoon.com
- Los Angeles: Zen Center of Los Angeles (Buddha Essence Temple ) - Founded by Maezumi Roshi in 1967. First center in the US of the Harada-Yasatani School. Offers complete Zen practice schedule.
www.zencenter.org
- Los Angeles: Kusala.org - A web site focused on the work of Rev. Kusala, an American born Zen Buddhist monk living in Los Angeles, California and home to the Los Angeles Buddhist - Catholic Dialogue.
www.kusala.org
- Los Angeles: Zenshuji Soto Zen Mission - The first Soto Zen Temple established in North America, in 1922. North American Headquarters of Sotoshu and a direct branch of Eiheiji and Sojiji, the two head temples in Japan. Offers zazen meditation, Buddist studies, tea ceremony, taiko drumming, clligraphy, Japanese dance,and ikibana. Kid's School and other community events.
zenshuji.org
- Los Gatos: Jikoji Zen Retreat Center - Soto Zen temple and retreat center located one hour south of San Francisco, California in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Offer workshops and sesshins and provides facilities for individual and group retreats.
www.zendo.com/~jikoji/jikoji.html
- Lucerne Valley: Desert Zen Center, Temple of Manjusri - An American center in the Lam Te (Vietnamese Rinzai) tradition. It is actively involved in teaching meditation to lay people and in the training of monks. Offers daily services and periodic retreats
www.desert-zen-center.org
- Monterey Bay Zen Center - Offers weekly zazen in the Soto tradition.
www.zendo.com/~mbzc/index.html
- Mountain Center: Zen Mountain Center - A year-round Zen training center for resident and non-resident students. Affiliated with the Zen Center of Los Angeles and the Harada-Yasutani lineage.
www.zmc.org
- Mountain View: Kannon Do - Mountain View Zen Center - Non-residential center affiliated with Zen Center of San Francisco, in the Soto lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi.
www.howardwade.com/kannon_do/kdo.html
- Mt. Baldy Zen Center - Mt. Baldy Zen Center is the main training facility of Rinzai-ji Inc. which was founded by Joshu Sasaki Roshi. It offers formal practice during the two training periods and less formal practice during the spring and fall.
www.mbzc.org
- Mt. Shasta: Shasta Abbey Monastery - Head temple of the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives, part of the Soto School of Zen. Provides complete training in the Serene Reflection tradition.
www.obcon.org/sapg.html
- National City: Sweetwater Zen Center - A residential Soto Zen center in San Diego county. Practices in the lineage of Bernie Tetsugen Glassman Roshi and Taizan Maezumi Roshi.
swzc.org
- North Fork: Empty Nest Zen Sangha - Offers Sunday services and dharma talks, and periodic sesshins in the Soto tradition.
emptynestzendo.org
- Oakland: Bay Zen Center - The Bay Zen Center originated in 1985 as a group of students studying with Charlotte Joko Beck, teacher at the Zen Center of San Diego. After receiving Dharma Transmission from Joko in 1994, Diane Eshin Rizzetto became the teacher and abbot of the Bay Zen Center. BZC, which is a member of the Ordinary Mind Zen School, is open to people of all traditions as well as beginners and experienced students.
www.bayzen.org
- Oakland: Kojin-An Zendo - Offers regular shikantaza practice.
www.pxr.com/kojin-an/htmls
- Ojai: Pine Mountain Buddhist Temple - A meditation retreat center affiliated with the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives, a monastic and lay order in the Soto Zen tradition.
www.pinemtnbuddhisttemple.org
- Palmdale: Rokuon-ji Zen Center - An urban meditation center dedicated to Rinzai Zen practice. Offers chanting and zazen in the morning and evening on a daily basis.
pages.prodigy.net/monkkido/index.html
- Pasadena Area Zen Sitting Group - Zen sitting group affiliated with the Zen Center of Los Angeles.
www.zenpasadena.org
- Riverside Ch'an Meditation Group - Affiliate of the Ch'an Meditation Center and Dharma Drum Mountain Buddhist Association.
geocities.com/Athens/Styx/2905/chanhome.html
- San Diego: Hidden Valley Zen Center - Offers daily zazen practice. Uses Rinzai forms. Loosely affiliated with the Rochester Zen Center.
www.hvzc.org
- San Diego: Three Treasures Zen Community - Offers regular services, zazenkais, and sesshins. Operates in two location, Rancho Penasquitos and Vista. Member of the White Plum Asaga, Harada Yasutani lineage.
www.ttzc.org
- San Diego: Hsi Fang Temple - Chinese Ch'an Buddhist temple, founded by the Venerable Master Hsing Yun. Offers regular services for both its English and Chinese speaking sanghas.
www.hsifang.org/english/index.html
- San Francisco Bay Area Zen Info - Offers information about Zen practice in the Bay area.
www.zendo.com
- San Francisco Zen Center - With information City Center, Tassajara, and Green Gulch Zen Centers. Founded by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi (Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind).
www.sfzc.com/index.html
- San Francisco Zen Centers - Information about the centers comprising the San Francisco Zen Center, founded by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, Soto Zen School.
www.sfzc.com/Pages/Site_Controls/centers.html
- San Francisco: Beginner's Mind Temple (Hosshin-ji), (City Center Temple) - Offers daily services and zazen practice in the Soto tradition. Member of the San Francisco Zen Center.
www.sfzc.com/Pages/City_Center/City_Center_Controls/cc.html
- San Francisco: Harbor Sangha - A small lay sangha affiliated with the Diamond Sangha (Pacific Zen Institute) and the Harada-Yasutani lineage.
www.zendo.com/%7Ehs/harbor.html
- San Francisco: Hartford Street Zen Center - A gay and lesbian Zen Center in the Castro district of San Francisco, affiliated with Zen Center of San Francisco, and practicing in the Soto tradition.
www.hartfordstreetzen.com
- San Francisco: Ocean Mirror Zendo - Offers daily zazen in the Soto Zen tradition of San Francisco Zen Center. The zendo is located in San Francisco's Outer Sunset District.
www.oceanmirror.org
- San Jose Zen Center - Offers weekly zazen and Zen Buddhist study in both Rinzai and Soto traditions.
www.zendo.com/sj.html
- San Mateo: Gentle Heart Sangha Meditation Group - Offers sitting and walking meditation in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh. Affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Buddhist Fellowship and the Community of Mindful Living.
homestead.com/meditationgroup/uubf.html
- San Rafael: Mountain Source Sangha - Soto Zen group under the direction of Taigen Dan Leighton, dharma heir in the lineage of Suzuki Roshi.
www.mtsource.org
- Santa Ana: Tu An Zen Temple - Offers daily Zen practice in the Vietnamese Zen lineage.
www.vnet.org/tzt/tuananh.htm
- Santa Cruz Zen Center - Non-residential Zen center offering weekly zazen.
www.zendo.com/~sczc
- Santa Monica Zen Center - Urban, non-residential Zen practice and training community located in the heart of Santa Monica. The center's training programs reflect a response to the need to translate ancient Asian Buddhist forms and metaphors into a living language of contemporary Zen practice and expression.
www.smzc.org
- Santa Rosa: Sonoma Mountain Zen Center, Genjo-ji - Offers daily zazen practice in the Soto Zen lineage of Shunryu Suzuki-roshi.
www.smzc.net
- Santa Rosa: Pacific Zen Institute - Formerly known as the California Diamond Sangha. Offers complete Zen practice in the Harada-Yasutani lineage.
www.pacificzen.org
- Sausalito: Green Gulch Farm Zen Center (Green Dragon Temple), (Soryu-ji) - Part of the San Francisco Zen Center, Soto lineage. Offers a residency program and an extensive schedule of retreats.
www.sfzc.com/Pages/Green_Gulch/Green_Gulch_Controls/gg.html
- Sonoma County Zen Center - Offers weekly zazen and dharma talks. Affiliated with the Pacific Zen Institute, Harada Yasutani lineage.
www.pacificzen.org/affiliates.html
- Soulsbyville: Acorn Family Sangha - A small multi-family sangha emphasizing householder practice. Affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Buddhist Fellowship and the Tuolumne Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
acornfamilysangha.org
- Stanton: Ocean Eyes Zen Center (Hae An Soen Won) - Affiliate of the Kwan Um School of Zen, offers complete Zen practice programs.
members.aol.com/OEZenCtr
- Warner Springs: Ordinary Dharma - Sitting group in the Thich Nhat Hanh lineage.
www.manzanitavillage.org/ordinary
- Wittier: Aikido-Ai Zendo - Zen sitting group affiliated with the Ocean Eyes Zen Center and the Kwan Um School of Zen.
www.aikidoai.com/zen2.htm
- California Zen Centers - The complete list of California Zen Centers, including those without websites.
www.iijnet.or.jp/iriz/zen_centers/centers_data/usaAG.htm#CALIFORNIA
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