Soto Zen center offering daily Zen sittings.

Soto lineage. Offers an extensive practice schedule.

Founded in 1977, member of Kwan Um School.

Offers daily zazen practice and frequent retreats, in the Chogye lineage of Ku San Sunim.

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 other's spiritual cultivation and inquiry into life's deeper meaning in a friendly and open atmosphere.

Offers weekly group meditation and regular retreats.

Sitting group affiliated with Dharma Cloud.

Comprises three Zen meditation groups: Fresno River Zen in Fresno, Valley Heartland Zen Group in Modesto, and Empty Nest Zen Group in North Fork. In the Soto-style Bay Area Zen Centers tradition.

First Rinzai convent in US. Affiliated with Rinzai-ji.

Offers daily zazen practice and periodic retreats.

Affiliated with the Udumbara Zen Center. Soto practice.

Offers traditional Ch'an and Chi-Kung practices resulting in a complete Buddhist teaching of mind-body unification, as transmitted by Master Miao-Kung.

In the Soto tradition.

Practices Humanistic Buddhism, an integration of Ch'an Buddhism (self-power) and Pure Land Buddhism (other-power).

A Zen monastery in SF Bay area, in the traditional Chinese Ch'an lineage. Offers Zen meditation and Buddhism classes and lectures, and meditation retreats in both English and Chinese.

Member of the Kwan Um School of Zen. Offers regular zazen, dharma talks, and interviews.

Member of the Kwan Um School of Zen. Offers daily zazen practice.

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.

Soto temple in the lineage of Maezumi Roshi. Offers regular weekly programs and periodic meditation intensives.

Founded by Maezumi Roshi in 1967. First center in the US of the Harada-Yasatani School. Offers complete Zen practice schedule.

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.

Founded in 1970 by Vietnamese Zen Master Thich Thien-An. The Center offers classes, meditation, and a residency program.

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.

Soto Zen temple and retreat center located one hour south of San Francisco, California in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Offer workshops and provides facilities for individual and group retreats.

In the Soto tradition.

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.

Non-residential center affiliated with Zen Center of San Francisco, in the Soto lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi.

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.

Head temple of the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives, part of the Soto School of Zen. Provides complete training in the Serene Reflection tradition.

Offers practice in the Soto Zen Buddhist tradition.

Supports the teachings of Cheri Huber.

A residential Soto Zen center in San Diego county. Practices in the lineage of Bernie Tetsugen Glassman Roshi and Taizan Maezumi Roshi.

Offers Sunday services and dharma talks, and periodic sesshins in the Soto tradition.

Offers regular group meditation. Affiliated with the San Francisco 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.

Offers regular shikantaza practice.

A meditation retreat center affiliated with the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives, a monastic and lay order in the Soto Zen tradition.

A learning center based on the Sudden Direct School of Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism that is dedicated to the direct investigation of life itself and the naturally meditative mind.

An urban meditation center dedicated to Rinzai Zen practice. Offers chanting and zazen in the morning and evening on a daily basis.

Zen sitting group affiliated with the Zen Center of Los Angeles.

Affiliate of the Ch'an Meditation Center and Dharma Drum Mountain Buddhist Association.

Offers daily zazen practice. Uses Rinzai forms. Loosely affiliated with the Rochester Zen Center.

Offers regular services, zazenkais, and sesshins. Operates in two location, Rancho Penasquitos and Vista. Member of the White Plum Asaga, Harada Yasutani lineage.

Chinese Ch'an Buddhist temple, founded by the Venerable Master Hsing Yun. Offers regular services for both its English and Chinese speaking sanghas.

With information City Center, Tassajara, and Green Gulch Zen Centers. Founded by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi (Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind).

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.

Zen Meditation Community with senior dharma teacher Myogen Steve Stucky, offering zazen, dharma talks, classes, and retreats.

Soto Zen group under the direction of Taigen Dan Leighton, dharma heir in the lineage of Suzuki Roshi.

Offers daily Zen practice in the Vietnamese Zen lineage.

Weekly zazen, dharma talks and Bukido. Provides information about their programs.

Offers daily zazen practice in the Soto Zen lineage of Shunryu Suzuki-roshi.

Formerly known as the California Diamond Sangha. Offers complete Zen practice in the Harada-Yasutani lineage.

Part of the San Francisco Zen Center, Soto lineage. Offers a residency program and an extensive schedule of retreats.

Offers weekly zazen and dharma talks. Affiliated with the Pacific Zen Institute, Harada Yasutani lineage.

Affiliate of the Kwan Um School of Zen, offers complete Zen practice programs.

A Soto Zen Buddhist Temple in the tradition of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi and the San Francisco and Berkeley Zen Centers. The center offers regular meditation, meditation instruction, a discussion group, classes, one-day sittings, work practice, lectures and special workshops.

Sitting group in the Thich Nhat Hanh lineage.

Lineage: Thich Nhat Hanh. Affiliiated with Community of Mindful Living.