Atlanta Soto Zen Center

Atlanta Soto Zen Center is a Soto Zen Buddhist practice community in Atlanta devoted to zazen, or sitting meditation, and the steady discipline of individual practice. Its sangha is made up primarily of lay practitioners from greater Atlanta and affiliated communities. The center offers regular morning and evening zazen, meditation instruction for beginners, monthly all-day sittings known as zazenkai, occasional week-long sesshin retreats, and a residency program for students seeking more intensive Zen training. It is also connected to affiliated sitting groups and centers in the Atlanta suburbs and other cities, and it provides meditation instruction to prisoners throughout Georgia through a prison outreach program.