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If you're interested in expanding your dharma practice to
include training at a Buddhist temple or monastery, here is a list of
Pennsylvania Dharma Centers.
- Mount Equity Zendo - Pennsdale
Phone:
570-546-2784 Email: mezen@uplink.net
Website: www.mtequity.org
Tradition: Soto Zen
Description: Located in a village near Williamsport in a 200
year-old Quaker manor. The abbess, Dai-En Bennage, is a lineage holder
in the Soto Zen Shikantaza tradition, trained15 years in Japanese
monasteries, and is the translator of "Zen Seeds". Morning and evening
zazen, Full Intro to Soto Zen,Women's Retreats, Dharma School, Intensive
weekend and week-long Sesshins, residency.
- Endless Mountain Zendo - Stillwater
Phone:
570-925-5077 Email: endless@epix.net
Website: www.endlessmountainzendo.org
Tradition: Rinzai Zen
Description: Endless Mountain Zendo is a Zen Buddhist country
practice center dedicated to the realization of True Self. The practice
style is based in the Rinzai Zen tradition. The resident teacher is Rev.
Genro Lee Milton Sensei.
- The Blue Mountain Lotus Society. - Harrisburg.
Phone:
717-566-9707 Email: RunningHorseDojo@aol.com Website: www.BMLS.org Tradition: Zen and Shin
Description: The Blue Mountain Lotus Society is devoted to sharing
the universal teachings of the Buddha in the 21st century.
- Pennsylvania Buddhist Vihara
Phone: 814 735-2129 Email:
damitha@pabuddhistvihara.org Website: www.pabuddhistvihara.org
Tradition: Theravada Description: Weekly services, instruction in
Singhala and Pali languages, individual or group guidance in meditation
and/or Dhamma, and individual Buddhist counseling. Monks are available
to perform Buddhist ceremonies such as weddings, funerals, house
blessings and pirith blessings for aged, sick or hospitalized
individuals.
- American Zen Buddhist Temple - Cresco
Phone 570-895-4600 Email:
azbt@evenlink.com Website: www.evenlink.com/~azbtnews
Tradition: Zen Western Pure Land or Amitabha from China and Taiwan
- American Zen College - Germantown
Phone: 301 428-0665 Email:
bodhi@bellatlantic.net Tradition: Kwan Se Um Zen
- Blue Mountain Zendo - Summit Hill
Phone: 570-645-8773 Email:
Kessei@ptd.net Tradition: Rinzai/Vietnamese Zen Blend
- Empty Moon Zendo - Hamburg
Phone: 610 562-3535 Email:
Buddha530@aol.com Tradition: Zen
- Zen Center of Pittsburgh. - Pittsburgh.
Phone: 412-741-1262
Email: kyoki@prairiewindzen.org Website: www.prairiewindzen.org/zcp
Tradition: Soto Zen Description: Established in 1999 ZCP is situated
just thirty minutes north of Pittsburgh, PA on six acres offering daily
meditation and services. The only center in western PA with a resident
priest.
- Three Rivers Dharma Center - Pittsburgh
Phone: 412 898-1199
Email: ThreeRiversDharma@yahoo.com Website: trfn.clpgh.org/bsp/trdcgroup.html
Tradition: Tibetan
- Kageyama Budo Dojo - Pittsburgh
Email:
Kageyama@hotmail.com Website: www.angelfire.com/pa/kagebudo/
Tradition: Tendai / Shingon, Zen
- Menlha Buddhist Center. - Philadelphia.
Phone: 215-923-1727
Email: menlha@mindspring.com Website: www.menlha.org Tradition:
Kadampa Description: All levels of interest welcome. Philadelphia,
Princeton, Harrisburg, Lehigh chapters. New Kadampa Tradition.
- Philadelphia Shambhala Meditation Center. - Philadelphia.
Phone:
215-568-6070 Email: info@philashambhala.org Website: www.philashambhala.org
Tradition: Vajrayana (Tibetan), Shambhala Description: We offer
classes/programs in Tibetan Buddhism, Shambhala Training (secular
meditation) & contemplative arts. ÒHow to MeditateÓ programs are
offered monthly.
- The Philadelphia Meditation Center. - Havertown
Phone:
610-853-8200 Email: PhlMedCtr@aol.com Website: www.philadelphiameditation.org
Tradition: Buddhayana Description: Center offers silent meditation
Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. Book and audiotape library. Metta and
mantra meditation, book discussion, movies with dharmic themes. Weekend
retreats.
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