Tassajara Stories: A Sort of Memoir/Oral History of the First Zen Buddhist Monastery in the West--The First Year, 1967 -- David Chadwick, Hardcover

A Spirituality & Practice "Best Spiritual Book of 2025"

"As priceless as discovering a previously unknown time capsule."--Peter Coyote (Hosho Jishi), actor, director, author

This is what happened at the famous Zen monastery south of San Francisco.

From the best-selling author of the biography of Shunryu Suzuki (Crooked Cucumber), comes a memoir and oral history of Tassajara--a monastery founded in 1967 by Shunryu Suzuki, abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center. Peopled like a Sixties film of Buddhist invasion, with hippies, dreamers, lovers, a wave of serious practitioners. Nyogen Senzaki, D.T. Suzuki, Alan Watts, Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, and of course Shunryu Suzuki and Richard Baker are all here. This is the story of what happened at and surrounding the founding of the first Zen monastery in the West.

Author: David Chadwick
Publisher: Monkfish Book Publishing
Published: 9/23/2025
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.1 lbs
Size: 9.06" H x 5.91" L x 1.1" W
ISBN: 9781958972892

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