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Home Atlanta, GeorgiaAtlanta Soto Zen Center

ATLANTA SOTO ZEN CENTER

Silent Thunder Order Home Training Center

Atlanta, GA

Sangha members outside the Atlanta Soto Zen Center outside in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Atlanta Soto Zen Center (ASZC) was founded in the early 1970’s with the leadership of Abbot Zenkai Taiun Michael Elliston, who was a disciple of Rev. Dr. Soyu Matsuoka-Roshi in Chicago during the 1960’s. Elliston-sensei remains the Zen Center’s spiritual leader. ASZC is the training center for the Silent Thunder Order.

ASZC supports its members by providing a Sangha, or group to sit with. Zazen, or sitting meditation, is available mornings and evenings every day of the week. Experienced teachers are available to respond to any questions that arise.

ASZC hosts daily and weekly discussion groups and has an extensive lending library. The Center also conducts a prison outreach program and offers meditation instruction to prisoners throughout the state of Georgia.

The ASZC Sangha (community of members) is comprised of lay practitioners (that means we’re regular folks with regular jobs – we’re not full-time monks) from throughout the greater Atlanta area and our affiliate centers. We welcome new members to our practice. Our members are as varied as our lives.

The Atlanta Soto Zen center also offers a residency program to serious students looking to deepen their practice.

Atlanta Soto Zen Center

Zenkai Taiun M. Elliston, Roshi Abbott and Founder of Atlanta Soto Zen Center and Silent Thunder Order

ADDRESS:

1167 Zonolite Pl NE,

Atlanta, GA 30306

PHONE:

(470) 851-4588

EMAIL:

aszcinfo@gmail.com

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