What Happened at Tassajara: Stories of the First Zen Buddhist Monastery in the West, 1968--1971 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781966608455)

In 1966, at the age of 21, David Chadwick first rang the bell of Sokoji, a Soto Zen temple and the original home of the San Francisco Zen Center. Thus began his serious study under Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. Ordained a Zen priest in 1971, he later wrote Suzuki's biography, Crooked Cucumber, as well as Thank You and OK!: An American Zen Failure in Japan. Chadwick is the primary preserver of the legacy of Shunryu Suzuki and those whose paths crossed his. The present work is the sequel to Tassajara Stories: A Sort of Memoir/Oral History of the First Zen Buddhist Monastery in the West: The First Year, 1967, published by Monkfish in September 2025.

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