Mount Baldy Zen Center Explained

Mount Baldy Zen Center
Location:	Mount Baldy, California
Religious Affiliation:	Rinzai
Country:	United States
Founded By:	Kyozan Joshu Sasaki
Year Completed:	1971

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 4.5acres 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]

See also

• Buddhism in the United States
• Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States

References

• Book: Kelly, Marcia. Jack Kelly. Sanctuaries: A Guide to Lodgings in Monasteries, Abbeys, and Retreats of the United States. Bell Tower. 1993. 0-517-88007-5. registration.
• Web site: 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. 2008-01-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20080126100356/http://www2.hmc.edu/www_common/religious_studies/baldy/title.html. 26 January 2008. dead.

External links

• 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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Joshu Sasaki, 107, Tainted Zen Master. 4 Aug 2014. The New York Times. 31 January 2015.