Zen Center of Los Angeles
East Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Taizan Maezumi's founding temple of the Soto-Rinzai lineages in America, a residential Zen center in an East Hollywood house where daily zazen has run since 1967.
Maezumi Roshi established ZCLA in 1967, blending Soto and Rinzai forms in a single training temple. It has trained generations of American Zen teachers from a modest East Hollywood house and remains a residential community.
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