Mount Baldy Zen Center (MBZC) is a Rinzai Zen monastery of the Nyorai-nyokyo sect, located in the San Gabriel Mountains of the Angeles National Forest region on 4.5 acres (18,000 m2) and founded in 1971 by Kyozan Joshu Sasaki. The monastery—once a Boy Scout camp—became famous when musician Leonard Cohen joined the community in 1994. The monastery served as residence for Sasaki, and is the training center for monastics in his lineage. Other centers in Sasaki's network, including Rinzai-ji, offer the opportunity to practice Zen to laypeople in the lineage. Sasaki died in 2014 at the age of 107.[1]
| Mount Baldy Zen Center | |
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| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Rinzai |
| Location | |
| Location | Mount Baldy, California |
| Country | United States |
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| Founder | Kyozan Joshu Sasaki |
| Completed | 1971 |
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Notes edit
- ^ "Joshu Sasaki, 107, Tainted Zen Master". The New York Times. 4 August 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
References edit
- Kelly, Marcia; Jack Kelly (1993). Sanctuaries: A Guide to Lodgings in Monasteries, Abbeys, and Retreats of the United States. Bell Tower. ISBN 0-517-88007-5.
- Bailer, Martha; Mariah Crittendon; Kerensa Good; Emily Long; Andrea Mullarkey; Karla Ramirez. "The Mount Baldy Zen Center: A Virtual Tour (An Investigation Carried Out According to the Guidelines of the Harvard Pluralism Project)". Claremont Colleges Religious Studies. Archived from the original on 26 January 2008. Retrieved 20 January 2008.
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- Image of Zen Buddhist monks and students walking to lunch at Mt. Baldy Zen Center, California,1973. Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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