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What Happened at Tassajara: Stories of the First Zen Buddhist Monastery in the West, 1968-1971

By David Chadwick
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By David Chadwick
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From the award-winning and best-selling author of the biography of Shunryu Suzuki, comes the concluding volume of exploration, through personal memoir, oral history, and rare photographs, of the physical and spiritual place known as Tassajara—a monastery founded by the San Francisco Zen Center in 1967.

Peopled like a Sixties film of Buddhism invasion, with hippies, dreamers, lovers, and the first serious practitioners in the US. Joan Baez, David Steindl-Rast, Maud Oakes, Jack Kerouac, Peter...

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HistoryReligionUnited States HistoryBuddhismUnited States History - Western, Plains & Rocky Mountain RegionWestern United States - History - General & MiscellaneousBuddhist Customs, Rites & PracticesBuddhist History