by Web Editor | Mar 11, 2014 | Arts & Culture, Features, News
Diane Renshaw, whose intimacy with Tassajara began in 1978, has known the valley and surrounding wilderness through her practice of Zen and as a professional ecologist. Involved in an ongoing wild plant project at Tassajara, she both nurtures and is nurtured by the...
by Sangha News editor | Mar 5, 2014 | Features, Governance, News
Last weekend Zen Center spent two days honoring former and new abbots as they respectively stepped down from and stepped up to the “mountain” of leadership. The new abbot and abbess were installed in a grand ceremony at City Center on Sunday, March 2,...
by Sangha News editor | Mar 5, 2014 | Arts & Culture, Governance
From the archives: Mountain Seat Ceremony, November 21, 1971 Zentatsu Richard Baker (right), assisted by Tenshin Reb Anderson and Angie Runyon.
by Sangha News editor | Mar 4, 2014 | Arts & Culture, Giving, Programs
Zen Center offers a warm thanks to the Pema Chodron Foundation, which donated a large collection of books to our prison outreach program. These will be sent to men and women in prisons and jails throughout the country at no cost. The warmth and compassion we have come...
