Ocean Of Compassion Buddhist Center
[Tibetan Gelug]
Gyalwa Gyatso Buddhist Center provides teachings the gelug lineage of Tibetan Buddhism according to the curriculum of the FPMT, Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, in the greater San Jose area. Contact:
(California, AM) Sggbc@gyalwagyatso.org
Japanese Soto Zen Center
Contact: PETER SCHNEIDER at info@northridgezencenter.org
Jodoshu North America Buddhist Missions [Pure Land School]
The temple is located at very close to Down Town Los Angeles. The founder is Honen Shonin(1133~1212), and it started in 12th Century A.D..
Address : 442 E. 3rd Street, Los Angeles CA 90013
Phone : (213)346-9666,9667 Fax (213)346-9668
Email : info@Jodoshu-na.org
Dechen Ling [Tibetan Nyingma]
Dechen Ling has been established to maintain, through
teaching and practice, the unbroken transmission lineage of experience
and instruction embodied within the Domang Tersar, the New Treasures of
Domang. We are a part of the Nyingma Lineage of Tibetan Vajrayana
Buddhism.
Address : PO Box 500, Hornbrook, CA 96044
Phone : (901) 276-3760
Email : dechen@dechenling.org
Davis Shambhala Meditation Center [Tibetan Buddhist; Shambhala Training]
which is part of Shambhala International (founded by Chogyam Trungpa
Rinpoche). Meditation, instruction, Buddhist studies.
Diamond Way Buddhism [Tibetan, Karma Kagyu]
Address : 110 Merced Ave., San Francisco, CA 94127
Phone : (415) 661 64 67, Fax: (415) 665-2241
Email : sanfrancisco@diamondway.org
Berkeley Shambhala Center [Tibetan, Kagyu]
Address : 2288 Fulton Street, Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone : (510) 841-6475
Email : shambhal@pacbell.net
Berkeley Zen Center [Soto Zen]
Address : 1931 Russell Street, Berkeley, CA 94703
Phone : (510) 845-2403
Email : bzc@berkeleyzencenter.org
Parallax Press [Vietnamese Zen]
Address : 850 Talbot Avenue, Albany, CA 94706
Phone : (510) 527-3751, Fax: (510) 525-7129
Email : parapress@aol.com
Empty Gate Zen Center [Korean Zen]
Address : 2200 Parker Street, Berkeley, CA 94703
Phone : (510) 845-8565
Email : egzc@emptygatezen.com
Hartford Street Zen Center [Zen]
Address : 57 Hartford Street, San Francisco, CA 94114
Phone : (415) 863-2507
Juniper [Tibetan Gelug]
Address : 2369 Empire Grade, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Phone : (831) 423-8700
Email : HBCScruz@aol.com
Insight Meditation Center of the Mid-Peninsula
[Vipassana]
Address : PO Box 1495, Palo Alto, CA 94301
Phone : (650) 599-3456
Email : info@midpeninsight.org
Jewel Heart San Francisco Center [Tibetan, Gelupa]
Address : San Francisco
Phone : (415) 248-2656
Kagyu Droden Kunchab [Tibetan]
Address : 1892 Fell Street, San Francisco, CA 94117
Phone : (415) 752-5454
Kannon Do Zen Meditation Center
[Soto Zen]
Address : 292 College Avenue, Mountain View, CA 94040
Phone : (650) 903-1935
Koyasan Shingon Tenchi-ji Temple [Shingon]
Address : Box 3757, Fresno, CA 93650-3757
Phone : (559) 435-0507
Email : beidson@shingon.org
Enmanji Buddhist Temple [Shinshu]
Address : 575 Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View,CA 94043-3102
Phone : (415) 964 9426, Fax: (415) 964 6159
Email : mvbt@aol.com
Nyingma Institute [Tibetan Nyingma]
Address : 1815 Highland Place, Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone : Tel: (510) 843-6812
Email : Nyingma-Institute@nyingma.org
Pacific Zen Institute [Soto/Rinzai]
Address : 4033 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94607
Phone : (510) 531-5779
Rigpa - USA National Headquarters [Tibetan Nyingma]
Address : 449 Powell Street, Suite 200 San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone : (415) 392-2055, Fax: (415) 392-2056
Sati Center for Buddhist Studies [Theravada]
Address : PO Box 2021, Santa Cruz, CA 95063-2021
Phone : (415) 646-0530
San Francisco Buddhist Center [Western Buddhist]
Address : 37 Bartlett Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
Phone : (415) 282-2018
Email : amigo@sfbuddhistcenter.org
San Francisco Zen Center [Soto Zen]
Address : 300 Page Street, San Francisco, CA
Phone : (415) 863-3136
Sixth Patriarch Zen Center [Korean Zen]
Address : 2584 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone : (510) 486-1762, Fax: 883-0461
Email : sixthpat@zenhall.org
Spirit Rock Meditation Center [Vipassana]
Address : 5000 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, Woodacre, CA 94973
Phone : (415) 488-0164, Fax: (415) 488-0170
Email : SRMC@spiritrock.org
Tibetan Nyingma Meditation Center [Tibetan, Nyingmapa]
Address : 1815 Highland Place, Berkeley, CA 94709
Phone : (510) 843-6812, Fax: 486-1679
Email : nyingma-institute@nyingma.org
Tse Chen Ling Center for Tibetan
Buddhist Studies We have classes in meditation and Buddhist Studies
available to everyone.
Santa Cruz Zen Center
The Center is a non-residential facility offering an environment and
teachings for the practice of waking up to the present moment. The foundation
of our practice is silent sitting meditation (zazen).
The City of Ten Thousand Buddhas
an international Buddhist community eastablished in 1974.
PO Box 217, 2001 Talmage Road, Talmage, CA 95481-0217
Hsi Fang temple Buddha's Light International Association (BLIA)
Amitabha Buddhist Society of U.S.A.
The Amitabha Buddhist Society of U.S.A. was founded by Venerable Master
Chin Kung in 1989 to advocate the Pure Land Study of Buddhism. It is currently headed by Mr. I-Hwa Yang.
Tse Chen Ling Center Tse Chen Ling Center for Tibetan Buddhist Studies is an urban meditation and study center centrally located in the Glen Park neighborhood of San Francisco. Tse Chen Ling means "the land of great compassion" and our center was given this name by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Orange County Buddhist Church
Orange County Buddhist Church is a member of the Buddhist Churches of America
(BCA), headquartered in San Francisco, California. The temple belongs to the
Jodo Shinshu Hompa Hongwanji Ha tradition of Buddhism and the
Mother Temple is the Nishi Hongwanji located in Kyoto, Japan.
Tin Ching Su Temple [Chinese]
Contact : Rev. Jung-Doa and Rev. Jung-An
Telephone: 818-289-1699
Address : 1032 S. 1st Street., Alhambra, CA 91801
Sheng Nen Temple - Chinese Buddhist Association, U.S.A.
Contact : Rev. Tat-Nung
Telephone: 818-282-4094
Address : 1212 W. Hellman Ave., Alhambra, CA 91801
The Berkeley Buddhist Priory The Berkeley Buddhist Priory is a temple following the Serene Reflection Meditation (Soto Zen) tradition. It is a branch of the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives. Email: prior@berkeleybuddhistpriory.org
San Jose Buddhist Church Betsuin
[Jodo] The San Jose Buddhist Church Betsuin is a temple of the Jodo Shinshu Nishi Hongwanji tradition of Buddhism. Our national organization is the Buddhist Churches of America, headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Berkeley Buddhist Temple Our Temple was started in Berkeley almost ninety years ago by Issei (first generation) pioneers from Japan. Our present resident minister is Reverend Hozan Hardiman who served some six and a half years at the Fresno Betsuin after receiving ordination as a Shinshu minister in Kyoto, Japan in 1983. 2121 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
TU AN ZEN TEMPLE 4310 W. 5th Street, Santa Ana, CA 92703 USA
Venice
Hongwanji Temple [Japanese] The Venice Temple is located in the western part of the Los Angeles Basin near the Marina and south of West Los Angeles.
Southern Alameda County Buddhist Church Southern Alameda County Buddhist Church is a member of the Buddhist Churches of America (BCA), headquartered in San Francisco.
Hsi Lai Temple
[Chinese] Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Order and its Los Angeles branch temple, Hsi Lai Temple, practice Humanistic Buddhism. Humanistic Buddhism is not new. Humanistic Buddhism is the teaching of the Buddha.
Zen Center of Los Angeles The Zen Center of Los Angeles has a 30-year history as a Zen training and practice center. Always changing to meet the needs of its members, it now grows under the leadership of a 3rd-generation American Zen teacher, Sensei Wendy Egyoku Nakao.
Dharma
At The Clubhouse [Tibetan]
Buddhist study and meditation in Santa Monica.
Address : 2439 Wilshire Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90013
Phone : (310) 451-4368
Email : santamonicakksg@earthlink.net
Nalandabodhi - Bay Area study Group [Tibetan, Nyingmapa/Kagyu]
Address : 105 Palm Ave. #12 San Francisco, CA 94118
Phone : (415) 422-0002
Email : sjohnston@nalandabodhi.org
Zen Caregiving Project [Zen]
Address : 273 Page Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone : (415) 863-2910, Fax: 863-1768
Email : zenhospice@aol.com
Aro Ter Lineage, Alameda Practice Group [Tibetan, Nyingmapa]
Chagdud Gompa, San Francisco Practice Group [Tibetan Nyingmapa]
Address : San Francisco, CA
Phone : (415) 282-6030
Dharma Centers and Organizations in California
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