 Tassajara Zen Mountain Center

The Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in the Ventana Wilderness area of the Los Padres National Forest, southeast of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, is the oldest Japanese Buddhist Sōtō Zen monastery in the United States.The Center is very isolated, more than from the nearest paved road, and only accessible via a narrow, steep, one-lane dirt road.