WELCOME TO SHASTA ABBEY
Shasta Abbey is a Buddhist monastery in the Serene Reflection Meditation (Soto Zen) Tradition. A monastery of the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives, it was founded by Rev. Master Jiyu-Kennett in the name of her Teacher, the Venerable Keido Chisan Koho, in 1970 as a training place for Buddhist monks, male and female, and a place of practice for lay people. We offer the Dharma – the Buddha’s Teaching – to all who wish to come. Please see our Visiting page.
The monastery, located near the town of Mount Shasta in Northern California, offers retreats, ceremonies, teaching and spiritual counseling, as well as the opportunity to train within a monastic schedule. This website offers Dharma Talks, scriptures and religious writings that you will find in the Teachings Section as well as information on the life of the Four-fold Sangha throughout these pages. We welcome your interest, comments, and feedback.
Zen Mountain Monastery (or, Doshinji, meaning Temple of the Way of Reality) is a Zen Buddhist monastery and training center on a 230-acre (0.93 km 2) forested property in the Catskill Mountains in Mount Tremper, New York.It was founded in 1980 by John Daido Loori originally as the Zen Arts Center. It combines the Rinzai and Sōtō Zen traditions, in both of which Loori received Dharma. PWZC/Jizo-an Monastery offfers a vairety of online programs to inspire, serve, and educate the public about the Dharma and the meaning of Living Spiritually in the World - Living a Zen-Inspired Life.
NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
April 3, 2021 Update
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Franks adventure 4 gold edition walkthrough. Due to the continuing spread of the COVID-19 virus and in compliance with public health directives, Shasta Abbey is staying closed for in-person visits through at least the end of July, 2021. We are, however, continuing to offer online teachings and retreats during this closed period. We are certainly considering how it might be possible to gradually open the monastery at some time in the future and we will keep you informed on this page.
For those who are new to our monastery and Soto Zen practice, we are continuing to offer a series of online introductory classes every month. If you would like to be on the emailing list to join these classes via Zoom, please contact the Guestmaster at guestmaster@shastaabbey.org. The following is a link to the previous classes that we offered in 2020: Introduction to Serene Reflection Buddhist Practice. Since we have had to cancel our previously scheduled weekend Introductory Retreats through June, we will instead be offering online day retreats. The dates for these Saturday retreats are: June 5. If you are interested in participating, please feel welcome to apply: application form
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We will continue to post, on the right side of this page, video and audio recordings of Sunday Dharma talks. You are all most welcome to call us to just chat or for spiritual counseling at any time. Please feel free to leave a message at ext. 305 (530-926-4208) or email guestmaster@shastaabbey.org. Transfer of merit requests are welcome at ext. 319 or by email at: sacristy@shastaabbey.org.
All of the Abbey monks are well at present, thankfully. We continue our daily meditation and training schedule, as always. We thank you for your patience and generous support as we continue to safeguard everyone’s health and well-being during this challenging time. May you all stay healthy and be at peace.
With very best wishes from the Shasta Abbey monastic community