Bay Area Buddhist Organizations

Please note that this list is by no means exhaustive. Listing of a temple or meditation center here does not constitute an endorsement by The HCBSS. If you’d like your community to be added to this list, please contact us at buddhiststudies [at] stanford.edu (buddhiststudies[at]stanford[dot]edu).

Peninsula (for SF see below):

• Bamboo in the Wind Zen Practice
• Insight Meditation Center (Mindfulness or Vipassana Meditation)
• Mountain View Buddhist Temple (Jodo Shinshu)
• Palo Alto Buddhist Temple (Jodo Shinshu)
• San Mateo Buddhist Temple (Jodo Shinshu)
• Silicon Valley Shambhala, Redwood City (Kagyü and Nyingma)
• Shinnyo-en U.S.A., Redwood City
• Wat Budhapradeep, San Bruno (Thai Temple)

City of San Francisco:

• Buddhist Church of San Francisco (Jodo Shinshu)
• Diamond Way Buddhist Center (Kagyü)
• Fo Guang Shan San Bao Temple(Chinese)
• Golden Mountain Monastery (Chinese)
• Kagyu Droden Kunchab (Kagyü)
• Rigpa San Francisco Center (Nyingma)
• San Francisco Myoshinji Temple (Nichiren)
• San Francisco Shambhala Meditation Center (Kagyü and Nyingma)
• San Francisco Zen Center
• Tse Chen Ling Center for Tibetan Buddhist Studies (Gelug)

South Bay:

• Ananda Dharma Center, San Jose (Gelug)
• Chung Tai Zen Center Sunnyvale
• Land of Medicine Buddha (Gelug)
• Lieu Quan Buddhist Cultural Center, San Jose (Vietnamese)
• Ocean of Compassion (Gyalwa Gyatso) Buddhist Center, Campbell (Gelug)
• Palpung Lungtok Choeling, San Jose (Kagyü)
• Tzi Chi Foundation, San Jose
• Yongey Buddhist Center, Milpitas (Kagyü and Nyingma)

North Bay:

• Abhayagiri (Theravāda), Redwood Valley
• Ati Ling, Cazadero (Nyingma)
• Buddha Gate Monastery, Lafayette (Chan)
• Buddhist Temple of Marin, Mill Valley (Jodo Shinshu)
• Dharma Realm Buddhist Association
• Green Gulch Farm, Muir Beach (SF Zen Center)
• Kagyu Takten Puntsokling, Sebastopol (Kagyü)
• Padma Shedrup Ling, Fairfax (Kagyü and Nyingma)
• Padmasambhava Peace Institute, Cazadero (Nyingma)
• Ratna Ling Retreat Center, Cazadero (Nyingma)
• Sonoma Shambhala Center (Kagyü and Nyingma)
• Spirit Rock Insight Meditation Center, Woodacre
• Sukhasiddhi Foundation (Kagyü)
• Tamalpais Shambhala, San Rafael (Kagyü and Nyingma)
• The Peaceful Sea Sangha, Fairfax

East Bay:

• Berkeley Buddhist Monastery (Chan)
• Berkeley Buddhist Priory, Albany (Soto Zen)
• Berkeley Buddhist Vihara, Richmond (Theravāda)
• Berkeley Shambhala Meditation Center (Kagyü and Nyingma)
• Berkeley Buddhist Temple (Jodo Shinshu)
• Berkeley Higashi Honganji (Jodo Shinshu)
• Berkeley Zen Center
• Buddhist Church of Oakland (Jodo Shinshu)
• Chua Pho Tu, Hayward (Vietnamese)
• Dharma Drum Mountain San Francisco Bay Area Center, Fremont (Chan)
• Dharmata Foundation, Richmond (Nyingma)
• Dondrubling/Dzogchen Community West Coast, Berkeley (Nyingma)
• Empty Gate Zen Center, Berkeley
• Ewam Choden Tibetan Buddhist Center, Kensington (Sakya)
• Fo Guang Shan, Fremont Culture and Education Center, Fremont (Chinese)
• Fo Guang Shan, The Light of Buddha Temple, Oakland (Chinese)
• Gyuto Foundation, Richmond (Gelug)
• Nyingma Institute, Berkeley (Nyingma)
• Oakland Zen Center (Kogin An Zendo)
• Orgyen Dorje Den, Alameda (Nyingma)
• Southern Alameda County Buddhist Church, Union City (Jodo Shinshu)
• True Buddha Vijaya Temple, Oakland
• Tzu Chi Foundation, Oakland
• Universal Chan International Zen Buddhist Center, Kensington
• Wat Buddhanusorn (Thai Temple), Fremont