Zen Center of Los Angeles

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Zen Center of Los Angeles
Information
Denomination:	White Plum Asanga
Founded:	1967
Founder(s):	Taizan Maezumi
Abbot(s):	Wendy Egyoku Nakao
Address:	923 S. Normandie Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90006
Country:	United States
Phone:	(213) 387-2351
Website
Website:	www.zencenter.org/
Portal:Buddhism

The Zen Center of Los Angeles (ZCLA), temple name Buddha Essence Temple, is a Zen center founded by Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi in 1967 that practices in the White Plum lineage. Located in Los Angeles, California in an area prone to crime, by 1980 the center had more than two-hundred members and owned many of the homes and apartments in the surrounding neighborhood. Many of these residential buildings have Japanese landscape designs.^[1][2] Jan Chozen Bays directed the ZCLA non-profit Medical Clinic, which provided basic care for members and low-income families or individuals in their surrounding area.^[3][1]

[edit] See also

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

[edit] Gallery

	Conrad Butsugen Romo in front of ZCLA during the 40th Anniversary celebration

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

• Maguire, Jack (2001). Essential Buddhism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs and Practices. Simons and Schuster. ISBN 0671041886. 
• Preston, David L. (1988). The Social Organization of Zen Practice: Constructing Transcultural Reality. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 052135000X. 
• Seager, Richard Hughes (1999). Buddhism in America. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0231108680. 

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