{"product_id":"tassajara-stories-david-chadwick-9781958972892","title":"Tassajara Stories: A Sort of Memoir\/Oral History of the First Zen Buddhist Monastery in the West--The First Year, 1967","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is what happened at the famous Zen monastery south of San Francisco.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the best-selling author of the biography of Shunryu Suzuki (\u003ci\u003eCrooked Cucumber\u003c\/i\u003e), 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Chadwick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1958972894\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781958972892\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Monkfish Book Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/23\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/0001","brand":"David Chadwick","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46881159938303,"sku":"9781958972892","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4917b1af-d2d7-47eb-bf39-8d4d29704fd6.jpg?v=1747970856","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tassajara-stories-david-chadwick-9781958972892","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}