Cham Shan Temple Competitors

Buddhist Tzu Chi Charity Foundation, founded by Dharma Master Cheng Yen in 1966, is an international non-profit organization devoted to spreading Great Love through its work in the fields of charity, medicine, education, and humanistic culture. These comprise Tzu Chi’s Four Missions, and they have subsequently extended to include Bone Marrow Donation, International Relief, Environmental Protection, and Community Volunteerism. Tzu Chi is a volunteer-based organization headquartered in Hualien, Taiwan, funded by donations from the public. Today, millions of supporters and tens of thousands of certified volunteers carrying out Tzu Chi’s missions around the world, Tzu Chi's love has reached 133 countries and regions through the effort of volunteers located in 67 countries and regions.

San Francisco Zen Center was established in 1962 by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi (1904-1971) and his American students. Suzuki Roshi is known to countless readers as the author of the modern spiritual classic, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. The purpose of San Francisco Zen Center is to make accessible and embody the wisdom and compassion of the Buddha as expressed in the Soto Zen tradition established by Dogen Zenji in 13th-century Japan and conveyed to us by Suzuki Roshi and other Buddhist teachers. Our practice flows from the insight that all beings are Buddha, and that sitting in meditation is itself the realization of Buddha nature, or enlightenment. Today, San Francisco Zen Center is one of the largest Buddhist sanghas outside Asia. It has three practice places: City Center, in the vibrant heart of San Francisco; Green Gulch Farm, whose organic fields meet the ocean in Marin County; and Tassajara Zen Mountain Center—the first Zen training monastery in the West—in the Ventana Wilderness inland from Big Sur. These three complementary practice centers offer daily meditation, regular monastic retreats and practice periods, classes, lectures, and workshops. Zen Center is a practice place for a diverse population of students, visitors, lay people, priests, and monks guided by teachers who follow in Suzuki Roshi's style of warm hand and heart to warm hand and heart. All are welcome. Zen Center programs also reach out to the community, helping prisoners, the homeless, and those in recovery; protecting the environment; and working for peace. See our outreach program for details. Suzuki Roshi's disciples and students of his disciples now lead dharma groups around the country.

Sgi USA is a nonprofit organization management company based out of 14840 Nordhoff St, Panorama City, California, United States.