Hartford Street Zen Center
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57 Hartford St, San Francisco, CA 94114
57 Hartford St, San Francisco, CA 94114
WebsiteFounded in 1980 by Rev. Issan Dorsey and the Gay Buddhist Club in a Victorian house in the Castro district of San Francisco, Hartford Street Zen Center, Issan-ji (One Mountain Temple), is a neighborhood temple and residential practice center in the Soto Zen tradition of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. We host morning and evening zazen sessions as well as Saturday speakers, monthly one-day sittings, and a variety of community events. HSZC houses an open and supportive community for LGBTQQI people and allies to practice together and deepen our understanding of the Dharma.
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11/30/2012
Provided by YP.comThis Soto Zen temple is a wonderful intimate place for contemplation and to practice Zen Buddhism. Make sure to visit the garden behind the center. You can stop by on a Saturday for free meditation instruction at 8:30 am and stay for zazen at 9:25 am, a short dharma talk at 10:15 am and tea and cookies with the group, It has an amazing history. Hartford Street Zen Center was founded by Issan Tommy Dorsey whose life story is told in the book "Street Zen" by David Schneider (winner of the Tricycle Prize for Best Book on Buddhism in America). Issan, who served as the temple's first abbot, founded Maitri Hospice at Hartford Street Zen Center. The beat poet Zenshin Philip Whalen was the temple's third abbot. Whalen appears, in barely fictionalized form, as the character "Warren Coughlin" in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums, which includes an account of that reading.
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- Regular Hours
Mon - Fri: Sat: Sun: - Payment method
- paypal
- Neighborhoods
- Castro, Southwest San Francisco
- Associations
- We share a lineage with the San Francisco Zen Center and practice centers around the country established by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi and his heirs.
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- Buddhist Places of Worship, Churches & Places of Worship