Mount Baldy Zen Center

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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 serves 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—now 104 years old—has yet to name a successor for himself, and as such retains full control of Mt. Baldy and ordinations in his lineage.^[1][2]

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See also

• Buddhism in the United States
• Dharma Seal Temple
• Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States

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References

• Kelly, Marcia; Jack Kelly (1993). Sanctuaries: A Guide to Lodgings in Monasteries, Abbeys, and Retreats of the United States. Bell Tower. ISBN 0517880075. 
• 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. http://www2.hmc.edu/www_common/religious_studies/baldy/title.html. Retrieved 2008-01-20.