Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Shunryu Suzuki (May 18, 1904 - December 4, 1971) was a Japanese Zen master of the (Soto school), direct spiritual descendant of Zen master Dogen. He moved to San Francisco, USA in 1959, and founded the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, the first Zen training monastery outside Asia, City Center (in San Francisco) and Green Gulch Farm. A collection of his teisho's (Zen talks) were bundled in the books Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind and Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen. His lectures on the Sandokai are collected in Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness. Suzuki's biography is captured in David Chadwick's Crooked Cucumber. References Shunryu Suzuki; Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai; University of California Press; ISBN 0-520-21982-1 (1st edition, hardcover, 1999) David Chadwick; Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki; Broadway Books, New York; ISBN 0-7679-0104-5 (1st edition, hardcover, 1999) External links David Chadwick San Francisco Zen Center This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.