Tassajara
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- This article is about the monastery. For the geological structure, see Tassajara Formation.
Tassajara Zen Mountain Center was established in 1966 as the first Soto Zen Buddhist monastery in the United States by Shunryu Suzuki. Tassajara, along with Beginner's Mind Temple and Green Gulch Farm make up San Francisco Zen Center. It is located in California in the Los Padres National Forest in the Ventana Wilderness area. It is a residential monastery that is open to the public from April to September. For more information, visit www.sfzc.com.