San Francisco Zen Center (San Francisco, California)

USA / California / San Francisco / San Francisco, California / Page Street, 300
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This is the main building of the San Francisco Zen Center, one of the oldest and largest Soto Zen establishments in the US.

www.sfzc.org/
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Coordinates:   37°46'26"N   122°25'33"W

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  • San Francisco Zen Center was established in 1962 by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi (1904-1971)the author of the modern spiritual classic, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Its purpose is to make accessible and embody the wisdom and compassion of the Buddha as expressed in the Soto Zen tradition established by Dogen Zenji in 13th-century Japan. Today, San Francisco Zen Center is one of the largest Buddhist sanghas (communities) outside Asia. It has three practice places: City Center (shown here on the map); Green Gulch Farm, whose organic fields meet the ocean in Marin County; and Tassajara Zen Mountain Center—the first Zen training monastery in the West—in the Ventana Wilderness inland from Big Sur. These three centers offer daily meditation, regular monastic retreats and practice periods, classes, lectures, and workshops. You can visit www.sfzc.org to download podcasts by Zen Center's various teachers. Zen Center programs also reach out to the community, helping prisoners, the homeless, and those in recovery; protecting the environment; and working for peace.
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