
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.

Featured Photo June 27
Shunryu Suzuki opening a ceremony at City Center/Beginner’s Mind Temple in June 1971. Photographer unknown.

Featured Photo April 18
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in the Abbot’s Cabin at Tassajara in 1969. Photographer unknown.

Featured Photo August 16
Rinso-in, the temple in Japan where Shunryu Suzuki Roshi was the resident priest. It is now overseen by his son Hoitsu and grandson Shungo. Photo from 1996 by Bill Schwob.

Featured Photo May 31
The November 21, 1971, Mountain Seat Ceremony at City Center. Photographer unknown.

Featured Photo January 4
Shunryu Suzuki at Stepping Down / Mountain Seat Ceremony at Rinso-in (in Japan) on October 23, 1966. Photographer unknown.

Featured Photo October 19
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi sitting zazen (meditation) in the original zendo at Tassajara, 1969. Photo by Alan Marlowe.

Featured Photo August 10
In 1967, Suzuki Roshi gesturing “little bit” as he and Bob Watkins moved stones at Tassajara. Photo by James Hatch.

Featured Photo July 13
A group at Sokoji in 1964. Photo by Joan B. Mayer. Mel Weitsman is to the left of Richard Baker who is sitting behind Suzuki Roshi.

A Poem in Response to Suzuki Roshi
Award-winning poet Brynn Saito, intrigued by the teachings of Zen Center founder Shunryu Suzuki, shares with us her poem in response to the master’s teaching. Read more