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Bellflower: Sangha of the Compassionate Heart
Soto Zen center offering daily Zen sittings.
www.geocities.com
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
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
First Rinzai convent in US. Affiliated with Rinzai-ji.
www.myokonisorin.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
North Fork: Empty Nest Zen Sangha
Offers Sunday services and dharma talks, and periodic sesshins in the Soto tradition.
emptynestzendo.org
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
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 other's spiritual cultivation and inquiry into life's deeper meaning in a friendly and open atmosphere.
www.drby.net
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
Santa Rosa: Sonoma Mountain Zen Center, Genjo-ji
Offers daily zazen practice in the Soto Zen lineage of Shunryu Suzuki-roshi.
www.smzc.net
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
Lafayette: Buddha Gate Monastery
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.
www.buddhagate.org
Los Angeles: Dharma Zen Center
Member of the Kwan Um School of Zen. Offers daily zazen practice.
www.dharmazen.com
Los Angeles: The International Buddhist Meditation Center
Founded in 1970 by Vietnamese Zen Master Thich Thien-An. The Center offers classes, meditation, and a residency program.
www.ibmc.info