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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]
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.
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 ...
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.
Sonoma Mountain Zen Center (or, Genjoji) is a Soto Zen practice center located on 80 acres (30 ha) in the mountainous region of Sonoma County in California—near Santa Rosa—carrying on the tradition and lineage of Shunryu Suzuki. Founded by Jakusho Kwong and his wife Laura Kwong in 1973, Kwong-roshi is the current guiding teacher of the Zen ...
Zenshuji follows the 2,500-year-old teachings of Gautama Buddha as passed down by Koso Dogen Zenji (1200–1253) and Taiso Keizan Zenji (1268–1325) who are recognized as the founding patriarchs of Soto Zen.
A torii at the entrance of Shitennō-ji, a Buddhist temple in Osaka. In Japan, Buddhist temples co-exist with Shinto shrines and both share the basic features of Japanese traditional architecture. [3] Both torii and rōmon mark the entrance to a shrine, as well as to temples, although torii is associated with Shinto and rōmon with Buddhism.
Main hall or Main Temple is the building within a Japanese Buddhist monastery compound which enshrines the main object of veneration. [1] Because the various denominations deliberately use different terms, this single English term translates several Japanese words, among them butsuden , butsu-dō , kondō , konpon-chūdō , and hondō .