Tassajara Stories (eBook)

A Sort of Memoir/Oral History of the First Zen Buddhist Monastery in the West—The First Year, 1967

David Chadwick (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
264 Seiten
Monkfish Book Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-958972-90-8 (ISBN)

Infos

As priceless as discovering a previously unknown time capsule.Peter Coyote (Hosho Jishi), actor, director, authorThis 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 Tassajaraa 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.9.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Schlagworte: 1960s • alan watts • allen ginsburg • Bones • California • free spirits • Monastery • monastic community • Nyogen Senzaki • Priest • Richard Baker • Ruth Fuller Sasaki • San Francisco • Shunryu Suzuki • Suzuki • Tassajara • US 101 • Zazen • Zen Temple
• ISBN-10: 1-958972-90-8 / 1958972908
• ISBN-13: 978-1-958972-90-8 / 9781958972908