Author

Books by Shunryu Suzuki

Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) was a Japanese Soto Zen monk and teacher who came to San Francisco in 1959 to serve the Japanese-American community and found himself drawn to teaching Westerners who wanted to practice zazen. He founded the San Francisco Zen Center in 1962 and Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in 1967 — the first Zen training monastery outside Asia. He is credited with introducing Soto Zen practice to the English-speaking world. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind was compiled from his talks and published the year of his death from cancer in 1971.