San Francisco Zen Center

San Francisco, CA, USA

Founded by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in 1962, San Francisco Zen Center is the oldest and largest Soto Zen practice community in the West. It operates three temples: City Center in San Francisco's Hayes Valley, Green Gulch Farm on the Marin coast, and Tassajara — the first Zen monastery established outside Asia, fourteen miles down a dirt road in the Ventana Wilderness. Programs range from introductory workshops and daylong sittings to week-long sesshin and multi-month residential practice periods. The center's calendar runs year-round, with Tassajara opening to guests each summer.