Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community is a Zen Buddhist community in Middlebury, Vermont, dedicated to engaged, experimental, and accessible practice inspired by the Zen Peacemaker tradition. Grounded in the Soto Zen tradition in America and the Three Tenets of the Zen Peacemakers, it emphasizes ethical conduct, community involvement, food and friendship gatherings, residential practice, and transitional housing support through The Grove for people reintegrating after incarceration, homelessness, or other periods of instability. The community's guiding teacher is Brian Joshin Byrnes, a Zen priest and teacher in the White Plum Asanga of Maezumi Roshi and the Zen Peacemakers Order.