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In a message dated 2/18/03 12:29:39 PM Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:

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Then you don't know N. Ca. very well <vbg>. I can imagine there are
zillions. >>

Retreats perhaps, I don't believe there are a whole lot of abbeys.....and I
think the retreat centers are just for meditation and visiting.
The abbeys are a way of life, you become a monk to live there.
As far as I know there aren't many of those.
I've spent a lot of time in Cali, dh used to live there when we were dating.

Shasta is especially known in the New Age groups, but Buddhist Abbeys? Are
you sure there are loads of those?

Ren
"The sun is shining--the sun is shining. That is the magic. The flowers are
growing--the roots are stirring. That is the magic. Being alive is the
magic--being strong is the magic The magic is in me--the magic is in
me....It's in every one of us."

----Frances Hodgson Burnett

Heidi Wordhouse-Dykema

Well, I visited:
http://members.aol.com/rimedzong/files/centers.html
and it seems that while there are a LOT of retreat centers and temples
(where perhaps only one or two priests/nuns stay, there are a few
monasterys/abbeys/residentials.
I found at least five possibilities in a few minutes. Maybe there's more
and maybe this is it, I don't know.
Berkeley Zen Center has a monastery (but an abbey? I don't know. They do
have an Abbott...)
Tassajara Zen Mountain Monastery (also don't know if it has an abbey)
Green Gulch Farm (in Sausalito?) has a residency program, but I don't know
if it qualifies as an abbey.
Sonoma Mountain Zen Center has a residency program that requires at least a
year, preferably two, but no mention of abbey or monastery.
Shasta Abbey, of course.
Enjoy!
Heidi