Affiliated with Zen Mountain Monastery and is part of the Society of Mountains and Rivers.

Member of the Cloud-Water Sangha, affiliated with the Rochester Zen Center, Harada Yasutani lineage.

Offers weekly zazen practice and emphasizing Engaged Buddhism, lead by Rev. Kendo Rich Hart in the Rinzai-ji lineage.

Offers practice in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh.

A residential Buddhist community in the tradition of Master Sheng-yen (Shifu). Chinese Ch'an Buddhist center in the Lin-Chi (Rinzai) lineage. Offers regular group meditation and frequent retreats.

Trains individuals in the Rinzai Zen tradition of Buddhism. Closely affiliated with The Zen Studies Society and can be considered a sub temple of International Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo Ji monastery. Offers daily zazen practice.

Monastery and training center for monastics and lay practitioners. Information on activities, articles on the dharma and Zen arts.

A Soto Zen meditation group inspired by the teachings and practice of Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi. Located Manhattan's Upper West Side.

Founded in 1975. Member of the Kwan Um School of Zen. Offers a complete daily practice schedule and frequent dharma talks and retreats.

Hey-Wol (Wisdom Moon), teacher. Member of the World Zen Fellowship. Offers weekly group zazen practice and periodic retreats.

An affiliate of The Ch'an Meditation Center and Dharma Drum Mountain Buddhist Association, in the Lin-Chi (Rinzai) lineage. Offers weekly group meditation and periodic retreats.

Training temple for the Zen Peacemaker Order, Harada Yasutani lineage. Offers a complete Zen practice schedule.

The city branch of Zen Mountain Monastery under the direction of ZMM vice-abbess Bonnie Myotai Treace Sensei is dedicated to supporting lay practice for both beginning and experienced practitioners. Information on activities.

Inspired by the Teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh.

Offers daily sittings. Affiliated with Chartotte Joko Beck and the San Diego Zen Center.

Training center in the Rinzai Zen tradition. Founded in 1981 by Kyudo Nakagawa Roshi (Dharma successor of Soen Nakagawa Roshi).

Practices in the Soto-Rinzai lineage of Taizan Maezumi Roshi and the White Plum Asanga. Offers group zazen several times weekly.

Offers daily zazen and periodic retreats. Affiliated with Daibosatsu Monastary and the Rinzai lineage.

Offers weekly meditation. Affiliated with the Kwan Um School of Zen.

Offers regular group meditation practice. Member of the Dharma Drum Buddhist Association, in the lineage of Lin-Chi (Rinzai).

Established in 1966 by Roshi Philip Kapleau, who spent thirteen years undergoing Zen training in Japan under three Zen masters before being ordained by Hakuun Yasutani-roshi in 1965 and given permission by him to teach. The Rochester Zen Center has a large membership in Rochester and throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe. In 1986 Bodhin Kjolhede was installed as Roshi Kapleau's Dharma-successor and Director of the Center.

The Meeting House Zen Group has its origins in a weekly sitting program led by Susan Postal at Wainwright House from 1980-1985. Responding to an invitation by Rye Friends to share their historic Meeting House, Susan with the support of her teacher began leading evening zazen there twice weekly in 1986. The Zen Group incorporated as a not for profit organization in 1988.

Member sangha of the Community of Mindful Living. Offers practice in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh.

Rinzai Zen center offering regular sittings and retreats.

Retreat center for Dharma Drum Mountain, a Ch'an Buddhist association in the lineage of Lin-Chi (Rinzai).

Technically not Zen. Springwater is run by Toni Packer, a former Zen teacher who no longer affiliates with traditional Zen.

Offers a full Zen practice schedule, with a resident teacher. Affiliated with the Dai Bosatsu Zendo and the Rinzai tradition.

Affiliated with the Inisfada Interfaith Zen Center.

Complete list of all Zen Centers in New York, maintained by the International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism.