San Francisco Zen Center

San Francisco Zen Center (SFZC) is the largest Soto Zen temple and practice place in the United States and possibly anywhere outside of Japan. SFZC is made up of three temples:

• Green Gulch Farm in Marin County, California
• City Center (Beginner's Mind temple or Hoshin-Ji) in San Francisco, California
• Tassajara (Zen Mind temple or Zenshin-ji) in the middle of the Ventana Wilderness Area of Monterey County, California

Zenshin-ji, established in 1966, was, at the time of its inception, the first Buddhist monastery outside of Asia. Many important Western Zen teachers have practiced at SFZC, including Shunryu Suzuki, Richard Baker, Tenshin Reb Andersen , and Dainin Katagiri.

Since 1988, the San Francisco Zen Center has been led by two equal co-abbots. The current abbots are Zenkei Blanche Hartman and Jiko Linda Cutts .

External link

http://www.sfzc.org