San Francisco Zen Center (City Center)

San Francisco Zen Center was founded in 1962 by Suzuki Roshi and operates a City Center that offers daily zazen (sitting meditation), periodic sesshin (intensive meditation retreats), and formal Buddhist ceremonies such as jukai (lay ordination) and priest ordinations. The center has been a major site for Soto Zen practice and ritual in the city since its founding. Programs and ceremonies are documented on the center's schedules and publications.