Zen Center of Los Angeles

Infobox Buddhist temple
name = Zen Center of Los Angeles

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denomination = White Plum Asanga
founded = 1967
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founder = Taizan Maezumi
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abbot = Wendy Egyoku Nakao
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address = 923 S. Normandie Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90006
country = United States
phone = [phone]
website = [http://www.zencenter.org/ www.zencenter.org/] 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. [Maguire, 184] [Seager, 101] 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. [Preston, 22-24] [http://www.greatvow.org/teachers.htm]

ee also

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

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*cite book| last =Maguire| first =Jack| authorlink =| coauthors =| title =Essential Buddhism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs and Practices| publisher =Simons and Schuster| date =2001| location =| pages =| url =http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47054191&referer=one_hit| doi =| id = | isbn = 0671041886
*cite book| last =Preston| first =David L.| authorlink =| coauthors =| title =The Social Organization of Zen Practice: Constructing Transcultural Reality| publisher =Cambridge University Press| date =1988| location =| pages =| url =http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16685057&referer=one_hit| doi =| id = | isbn = 052135000X
*cite book| last =Seager| first =Richard Hughes| authorlink =| coauthors =| title =Buddhism in America| publisher =Columbia University Press| date =1999| location =| pages =| url =http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40481142&referer=one_hit| doi =| id = | isbn = 0231108680