Mount Baldy Zen Center
The Mount Baldy Zen Center (Mount Baldy Zen Center, MBZC) is a Rinzai - Zen - monastery in the San Gabriel Mountains north of Los Angeles . It was founded in 1971 by Kyozan Joshu Sasaki Rōshi as the main monastery of the line of tradition he founded within the Japanese Myōshin-ji line. The monastery buildings, which arose from a facility originally used as a scout camp, serve the Rōshi as an apartment and the religious and lay people as a training facility. Numerous monks and nuns who were trained here now lead monasteries and temples of this Zen line of tradition in the USA and Europe. The remote monastery gained media fame during the years that the singer Leonard Cohen spent there. The special location of the monastery at 2000 meters above sea level with deep snow-covered winters and a desert climate in summer is part of the fascination. The clear authority with which the Rōshi ran the monastery as abbot and teacher until his death at the age of 107, attracted Zen practitioners from all over the world.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed January 17, 2010
- ↑ The 100th Year of Joshu Sasaki Rōshi. Festschrift for the 100th birthday. USA 2007
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Coordinates: 34 ° 15 '46.3 " N , 117 ° 37' 58.6" W.