Entrepreneur-Humanitarian and Longtime SFZC Supporter Rudolph Hurwich Dies at 92

by Sangha News editor | Sep 22, 2014 | Giving, News

With select excerpts below from a fuller obituary, we honor Rudy Hurwich for his long relationship with San Francisco Zen Center. He had maintained a personal relationship with Abbot Rinso Ed Sattizahn at Zen Center since 1979, during Ed’s term as SFZC...

Results of Outreach Book Sale

by Sangha News editor | Sep 22, 2014 | Arts & Culture, Giving, News, Programs

We offer our sincere thanks to all the people who participated in last week’s book sale. Through your generosity, we raised $1917. This money will be distributed among our various outreach programs, helping to provide books for prisoners, food for homeless men...

SFZC Joins Brooklyn Zen Center for People’s Climate March in New York

by Sangha News editor | Sep 9, 2014 | News

San Francisco Zen Center representatives will join a contingent from Brooklyn Zen Center to express serious concern for the environment at the People’s Climate March on Sunday, September 21, in New York City. Those from SFZC include Central Abbess Eijun Linda...

Writing to Angulimala: The Zen Center Prison Correspondence Program

by Sangha News editor | Aug 26, 2014 | Arts & Culture, Features, Volunteering, Zen Practice

Spotlight on SFZC Outreach

Invitation to People of Color for Meeting at SFZC

by Sangha News editor | Aug 26, 2014 | News, Zen Practice

Dear people of color community of San Francisco Zen Center, Green Gulch Farm and Tassajara, San Francisco Zen Center is exploring how to build awareness and equity in dharma practice, and in the workings of all our centers—City Center, Green Gulch and Tassajara. As...