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.