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Showing posts with label Retreat Center. Show all posts

Spirit Rock Meditation Center

Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Tel: (415) 488-0164
Fax: (415) 488-1025
Email: SRMC@spiritrock.org
http://spiritrock.org/

from their web site:

Spirit Rock Meditation Center is dedicated to the teachings of the Buddha as presented in the vipassana tradition. The practice of mindful awareness, called Insight or Vipassana Meditation, is at the heart of all the activities at Spirit Rock. The Center hosts a full program of ongoing classes, daylong programs, and residential retreats.

Dhamma Mahavana

California Vipassana Center
Dhamma Mahavana
P. O. Box 1167
North Fork, CA 93643 USA
(559) 877-4386
info@mahavana.dhamma.org
http://www.mahavana.dhamma.org

Offering courses in Vipassana Meditation as taught by S.N. Goenka in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin.

Vajrayana Foundation

Vajrayana Foundation / Pema Osel Ling
http://vajrayana.org
2013 Eureka Canyon Rd.
Corralitos, CA 95076
(831) 761-6266
office@vajrayana.org

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche established the Vajrayana Foundation as a non-profit to establish the Dudjom Tersar lineage in the West.

Pema Osel Ling (Lotus Land of Clear Light) is Vajrayana Foundation's main retreat center and is located in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California.

Padmasambhava Peace Institute

http://padmapeace.org/
Padmasambhava Peace Institute
23125 Fort Ross Road
Cazadero, CA 95421
info@padmapeace.org
(707) 632 5629

The mission of the Padmasambhava Peace Institute is to create a place for human and environmental restoration and to teach applied peace and compassion. We are an educational non-profit 501(c)(3) organization based at the Black Mountain Preserve, a beautiful 485-acre property set in the hills and forests overlooking the Pacific Ocean, in western Sonoma county.

Group puja is done daily at PPI at 7pm Monday to Saturday, and 9.30am only on Sundays. Tsogs (feast offerings) are also offered on certain days. Everyone is welcome. Please call (707) 632 5629 before coming up, in case of any change in schedule.

Also offers meditation classes in Santa Rosa.

Rangjung Yeshe Gomde - Dzogchen Meditation & Retreat Center

http://gomdeusa.org/
Rangjung Yeshe Gomde - Dzogchen Meditation & Retreat Center
66000 Drive Thru Tree Road
Leggett CA 95585
707-925-0201
information@gomdeusa.org

Nestled in the forested hills of Northern California's Mendocino County, Rangjung Yeshe Gomde protects and disseminates the living wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism as applied to the modern world. This secluded retreat center nurtures the heart essence of the Dzogchen lineage: teachings of startling power and clarity, considered the highest in Tibetan Buddhism.

Vajrapani Institute for Wisdom Culture

http://vajrapani.org
Vajrapani Institute
P.O. Box 2130
Boulder Creek, CA 95006
(831) 338-6654
vajrapani@vajrapani.org

Vajrapani Institute for Wisdom Culture is a Tibetan Buddhist retreat center located in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Boulder Creek, CA.

See web site for calendar of practice days, classes and events.

Jikoji Zen Temple & Retreat Center

http://www.jikoji.org/
12100 Skyline Blvd.
Los Gatos CA 95033
info@jikoji.org
(408) 741-9562 (during our regular business hours, 9 AM to 2 PM, M-F)

Jikoji is a Soto Zen temple and retreat center located approximately one hour south of San Francisco, California, in the Santa Cruz Mountains. We offer workshops and sesshins, and provide facilities for individual and group retreats. All are welcome.

Goat-in-the-Road

http://www.goatintheroad.org

Philo, CA in Mendocino County

Goat-in-the-Road is the site of a meditation hall and garden. Yvonne Rand is the resident teacher. She leads regular meditation retreats lasting in duration from half-day to three weeks. The garden offers an environment for meditation practice out of doors and compliments the formal meditation hall. The focus of teaching and practice at Goat-in-the-Road is on the cultivation of attention and the dismantling of the obstacles to stable attention which arise out of habit and conditioning.

Sandalwood Healing Grove

Sandalwood Healing Grove
San Rafael, CA
http://sandalwoodgrove.org

The vision of the Sandalwood Healing Grove, a Buddhist retreat center, is to create and nurture a rural retreat center for the study and practice of Tibetan Buddhist meditation and philosophy and their integration into modern life.

Check the web site for info on their progress.

Sae Taw Win II Dhamma Center

Sae Taw Win II Dhamma Center
stw2@saetawwin2.org
(707) 824-4456
http://www.saetawwin2.org
8769 Bower Street
Sebastopol, CA 95472

A school and residential community in the Theravada Tradition.

Sae Taw Win II is an offspring of classic Theravada Buddhism. Essentially, it is a way to perceive, understand and engage with life in a realistic, humane way. It is a gentle, loving philosophy that is shared by a diverse community of people from around the world. This unique perspective celebrates the principles of:

......dana ~ generosity
......metta ~ non-violence
......sila ~ keeping the precepts
......bhavana ~ meditation
......panna ~ wisdom

Sae Taw Win II was founded in 1997 by Dr. Thynn Thynn, a Burmese-born, retired physician. Dr. Thynn is the resident teacher and yogi at the Sae Taw Win II Dhamma Center in Northern California. The Center is an extension of the original Sae Taw Win Monastery in central Burma.

Land of Medicine Buddha

Land of Medicine Buddha
http://www.medicinebuddha.org
5800 Prescott Road
Soquel, CA 95073
phone: (831) 462-8383
Fax: (831) 476-0188
email: office@medicinebuddha.org

Retreats, daily practices, classes in Tibetan Buddhism.

Tassajara Zen Mountain Center

Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
http://sfzc.org/tassajara/
39171 Tassajara Road
Carmel Valley, CA 93924
(415) 865.1899

Tassajara Zen Mountain Center is a Zen Buddhist community established by San Francisco Zen Center in 1966. From April through September, Tassajara is open to guests and offers a variety of work-study programs, workshops and retreats. For the rest of the year it is closed to the public so that students of Zen can engage in traditional monastic training periods.

Tathagata Meditation Center

Tathagata Meditation Center
http://www.tathagata.org/
1215 Lucretia Ave.
San Jose, CA 95122
Tel: 408 294-4536

Burmese Theravada Retreat Center. Has lots of regular programming. Check web site for details.

Theravada Buddhist Society of America

Theravada Buddhist Society of America
Dhammananda Vihara Monastery
http://www.tbsa.org/
17450 South Cabrillo Hwy.
Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
650-726-7604

Burmese Monastery and retreat center. The Theravada Buddhist Society of America (TBSA) was founded in 1980 to support the sasana activities in general and the Dhammananda Vihara activities in particular.

Tibetan Nyingma Institute

Nyingma Institute
1815 Highland Place
Berkeley, CA 94709
phone: (510) 843-6812
Nyingma-Institute@nyingma.org
http://www.nyingmainstitute.com/

Classes, workshops, retreats, regular Sunday programs.

Green Gulch

Green Gulch
http://www.sfzc.org/ggf
1601 Shoreline Highway
Muir Beach, CA 94965
Phone: (415) 383.3134

Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, also known as Green Dragon Temple (Soryu-ji), is a Buddhist practice center in the Japanese Soto Zen tradition offering training in Zen meditation and ordinary work.

On Sunday, we offer a public program, which includes zazen instruction, a lecture, tea, and a public lunch ($8). Non-resident lay members volunteer with many aspects of the Sunday program.

See the web site for an extensive schedule of sits, workshops and retreats.