Abbot of VZM

Vairocana Zen Monastery is located in the City of Garden Grove of Southern California, the sunny belt of the Orange County.  The Monastery has authentic state of art Zen Hall which provides Zen practitioners an excellent place to meditate.  The Monastery offers meditation classes.  People with meditation experience or not are welcome.

Venerable Master Jian Liao, the abbot of Zen Monastery, possesses profound insight into the essence of Zen and had dedicated himself to the propagation and the practice of Zen.  The founding of Vairocana Zen Monastery serves the purpose of expounding the essence Zen’s Mind teaching through various skillful means.

Master Jian Liao’s core belief and goal of dharma teaching is to lead all beings into the understanding of the all-pervasive, universally applicable truth. Since this universal truth transcends race, religion, and time, it is without exception, it is the only path for the dissolution of dualistic conflict and the resolution of the disparate views among religions and their various sects.

Master Jian Liao has vowed to spread and promote this universal truth around the world, through the wisdom of Zen’s Mind teaching and the interpretive vehicles of contemporary knowledge, in order to open a universal path of wisdom and light for meeting with and offering to all beings coming and going in the Ten Directions.