Bodhi Manda Zen Center is a Rinzai Zen practice center located in a high desert river canyon in the Jemez Mountains, 60 miles northwest of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The center was founded in 1973 by Kyozan Joshu Roshi, a Japanese Zen Master in the Rinzai lineage, with the fundamental purpose of providing teaching in Zen Buddhism to all who wish to learn and practice.

Bodhi Manda Zen Center offers formal daily practice which includes activities such as samu (work practice), banka (chanting practice), and zazen (sitting meditation). In the spring and fall, the Center becomes a place of intensive monastic training under the guidance of Kyozan Joshu Roshi.

Throughout the year, guests come from many places to stay and participate in the daily activities, or simply to enjoy the New Mexico landscape and the Center's beautiful grounds. From December through March the Center is open to the general public. The Center has a four-room guest house that is available by reservation.

In the spring, during April and May, the Center is closed to all public activities for formal Zen training. In the summer from June through September the Center hosts private workshops. In October and November the Center is again closed to all public activities for formal Zen training.

There are various Buddhist celebrations in the yearly calendar, with the New Year being the most celebrated one. It begins with Three Great Cleaning Days preceding the New Year's Eve meditation program followed the next day by a New Year's Day ceremony and luncheon. In the springtime, Hanamatsuri (Buddha's birthday) is also celebrated. The public is welcome to attend these ceremonies. Please call or write for more information.

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