monastery recommendation

mettafou

can anyone recommend any monasteries for aspiring anagarikas outside of abhayagiri and wat metta? thank you.

dennis60

From the location of the 2 monasteries you mention it sounds like your in California. here is a list from wikiepidia....

• Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery, Redwood Valley
• American Buddhist Seminary (ABS) Temple, Sacramento
• Berkeley Zen Center, Berkeley
• City Of Ten Thousand Buddhas, Talmage, Mendocino County)
• Deer Park Monastery, Escondido
• Hazy Moon Zen Center, Los Angeles
• Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple Betsuin, Los Angeles
• Hsi Lai Temple, Hacienda Heights Suburb, Los Angeles
• Kwan Yin Meditation Temple, Monrovia
• Korean Buddhist Temple Sambosa, Carmel
• Land of Medicine Buddha, Soquel
• Lieu Quan, Union City
• Mt. Baldy Zen Center
• Odiyan Copper Mountain Mandala, North of San Francisco, Sonoma County
• Pao Fa Temple, Irvine, California
• Purple Lotus Temple, San Bruno
• San Fran Dhammaram Temple, San Francisco Thai Temple, West San Francisco
• San Francisco Zen Center, San Francisco
  • Green Gulch Farm, Muir Beach
  • Beginner's Mind Temple, SFZC
  • Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Carmel Valley
• San Jose Buddhist Church Betsuin, San Jose
• Shasta Abbey, Mount Shasta
• Sonoma Mountain Zen Center, Santa Rosa, Sonoma County
• Vista Buddhist Temple, Vista
• Wat Mongkolratanaram, Berkeley
• Yokoji Zen Mountain Center, near Idyllwild
• Zenshuji Soto Mission, Los Angeles

And an even more extensive list can be found here....

http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/nocenters.html

and

http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/socenters.html

good luck!

mettafou

thank you. any other recommendations for specific monasteries anywhere in the world?

dennis60

Well, i live in a monastery. I posted a story about here on this forum...it is located at...
http://newbuddhist.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5744