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

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 Budd...