Back to Top Thanks to the Providence Zen Center , Kwan Um School of Zen , and Ocean Eyes Zen Center for providing site content. If you come regularly, you are encouraged to become a member of the Kwan Um School of Zen and help support the sangha. The school also publishes a quarterly journal, Primary Point. There are also five other South West Zen Centers located throughout the South Western U.S., where students can live and support each other in their daily Zen Practice. There are Dharma talks, open houses, and occasional Zen Sitting Retreats.
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Instruction will be given on chanting and sitting meditation as the need arises. There are several sitting retreats yearly. The center is part of the Kwan Um School of Zen , an international organization of more than sixty centers and groups founded by Zen Master Seung Sahn , the first Korean Zen Master to live and teach in the West. The School's purpose is to make this practice of Zen Buddhism available to an ever growing number of students throughout the world. Mojave Desert Zen Center was dedicated by Zen Master Ji Bong on September 14, 1994.