September 5, 2019
Featured Photo September 12

Kobun Chino, Shunryu Suzuki, Li Gotami (born Ratti Petit in Bombay 1906, died 1988; wife of Lama Govinda), Lama Govinda (born Ernst Hoffmann in Germany 1898, died 1985), with a group of Zen students at Tassajara, fall 1968. Photo by Tim Buckley.

Lama Govinda was a friend of Alan Watts who, along with San Francisco Zen Center, cared for him and his wife after they moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s.

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Rev. Shūzan Uchiyama (1939–2025)

Rev. Shūzan Uchiyama Roshi 8/2/39 – 2/13/25 SFZC is saddened to announce that Shunryu Suzuki Roshi's nephew Rev. Shūzan Uchiyama Roshi passed away on February 13. His funeral will be held on April 2 at Rinso-in. Rev. Uchiyama was the son of Aiko-san, Shunryu Suzuki...