Hollywood Zen Center, 8261 Fountain Ave. #6, West Hollywood, CA 90046 (between Crescent Heights & Sweetzer)

Meditation in the Park: First Saturday of each month, 10:30am instruction, 11 to 12:30 sitting.
Kings Road Park Community Center: Santa Monica Blvd. and N. Kings Road,
West Hollywood 90069.
(Kings Road is parallel to La Cienega and Fairfax and in-between them, a little closer to La Cienega.)

The Hollywood Zen Center is a place where Zen Buddhist meditation is practiced in the heart of the Hollywood/Beverly Hills area in Los Angeles. HZC offers Rinzai Zen guided by Kigen Ekeson, Osho.

Kigen Ekeson is an ordained teacher ("Osho") of Joshu Sazaki Roshi, a 100-year-old Zen master who has been practicing traditional Rinzai Zen for eighty-six years. Since coming to the United States in 1962, Sazaki Roshi has ordained only 25 of his students to become teachers. These teachers have spread throughout the world.

Kigen Osho is one of these teachers and has settled in the Los Angeles area to teach. He is the abbot of HZC and is heading up the progress of the center. He leads all of the meditation periods, delivers Dharma talks and leads discussions, and is available to students for guidance as they pursue Zen practice.

What is Zen? Zen practice uses meditaiton as a method to realize the true nature of the self. To learn more about Rinzai Zen practice and Kigen's teaching style, see his talks:

An Introduction to Buddhism

Living and Dying

The Hollywood Zen Center is gratefully accepting donations. Formally incorporated as a nonprofit (501c3) corporation in 2004, HZC is still in its formative stages. Having met our first goal of becoming incorporated, our current goal is to find a location that allows for a dedicated practice space. Please contribute to this goal if you can.

If you cannot contribute to such a major goal, please support the Zen center by contributing towards incense and candles, which need to be replenished on a regular basis.