Mount Baldy Zen Center
The Mount Baldy Zen Center (Mount Baldy Zen Center, MBZC ) is a Rinzai Zen monastery in the San Gabriel Mountains north of Los Angeles. It was founded in 1971 by Joshu Sasaki Kyozan Rōshi as the main monastery he founded tradition within the Japanese Myoshin -ji line. The monastery buildings, which originated from an originally as a Boy Scout camp used facility, the Rōshi as an apartment as well as the Order members and laity serve as a training center. Many monks and nuns who have been trained here, now lead the monasteries and temples of the Zen tradition in the U.S. and Europe. Medial notoriety learned the remote monastery during the years who spent the singer Leonard Cohen there. The particular location of the monastery in 2000 meters above sea level with snowy winters and a desert climate in the summer is part of the allure. Also the clear authority with which the Rōshi passes the monastery as abbot and teacher with his now 103 years of life, attracts Zen practitioners from around the world.