Sangha News Journal
Keep your eyes open for midweek availability (it is abundant) and avoid the busiest times (all of July, and popular retreats) to get the best chance at your first choice. See you soon!
How SFZC manages our financial resources
Latest information on the 2026 zendo fire
Note: In February of 2009, Sangha News Journal posted this article by Ryuko Laura Burges on the occasion of Blanche receiving a special ceremonial robe sewn collectively by over 125 people from all over the world. We are sharing it again today in memory of...
Images from our Zen-a-thon celebration events
For its thoughtful and inspiring work, Studio Bondy won a religious architecture renovation award.
We are currently accepting applications for the 2026 Farm and Land Stewardship Programs!
SFZC formalizes updated leadership roles across City Center, Green Gulch Farm, and Tassajara.
Shuso Ceremony at Tassajara Congratulations to Ellen Simpson (O-do Jo-e, Responsive Way/Settled Wisdom) whose shuso ceremony on March 31 marked the end of practice period at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. The Practice Period was led by Abbot Tenzen David...
Recalling the first zendo fire and the rebuilding of its temporary replacement
Congratulations to the initiates who received the precepts in a Lay Bodhisattva Initiation Ceremony at SFZC’s City Center on April 18.
