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Temple University Press. ISBN 1-56639-756-1. OCLC 41832841. Cooper, Ann; Holmes, Lisa M. (2000). Bitter Harvest: A Chef's Perspective on the Hidden Dangers in the Foods We Eat and What You Can Do About It. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-92227-5. Davis, Erik (2006). The Visionary State: A Journey Through California's Spiritual Landscape. Chronicle Books.
The name is a corruption of Tasajera, a Spanish-American word derived from an indigenous Esselen word, which means "place where meat is hung to dry". [4] [5]The 126-acre mountain property surrounding the Tassajara Hot Springs was purchased by the San Francisco Zen Center in 1967 for the below-market price [6] of $300,000 [5] from Robert and Anna Beck. [7]
Berkeley Zen Center (BZC), temple name Shogakuji (祥岳寺, Shōgaku-ji), is an Sōtō Zen Buddhist practice centre located in Berkeley, California currently led by Hozan Alan Senauke. An informal affiliate to the San Francisco Zen Center (SFZC), [1] BZC was founded in 1967 by Sojun Mel Weitsman and Shunryu Suzuki as a satellite group for the ...
Yokoji Zen Mountain Center is a year-round Zen Buddhist training and retreat center located in the San Jacinto Mountains of Southern California. It is a 160 acres (65 hectares) of sacred Native American land and wilderness. Founded 1981 by Taizan Maezumi, Roshi as a summer retreat center for the Zen Center of Los Angeles.
Japanese Buddhist architecture is the architecture of Buddhist temples in Japan, consisting of locally developed variants of architectural styles born in China. [1] After Buddhism arrived from the continent via the Three Kingdoms of Korea in the 6th century, an effort was initially made to reproduce the original buildings as faithfully as possible, but gradually local versions of continental ...
Buddhist temples in San Francisco (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Buddhist temples in California" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
Koyasan Beikoku Betsuin (高野山米国別院, Kōyasan Beikoku Betsuin, "Koyasan United States Branch Temple"), also known as Koyasan Buddhist Temple, is a Japanese Buddhist temple in the Little Tokyo district of Downtown Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1912, it is one of the oldest existing Buddhist temples in the North ...
Apparently, the mayor of a Burmese town had visited Fresno in 1961 and presented it to the city as a gift. Mayor Selland gave it to the temple as the only Buddhist temple in town. Both the previous Japanese owners and the new Burmese owners agreed it should stay with Burmese congregation and that it was an auspicious sign for sale of the ...