Place
San Francisco
Also known as: San Francisco, CA, SF, The City
The principal urban node of the San Francisco Bay bioregion — a 49-square-mile city on the peninsula at the bay's mouth. Originally Ramaytush Ohlone territory; the post-1960s seedbed of the U.S. organic-food, contemplative-practice, queer-liberation, and ecological-design movements. Hosts the headquarters temple (Beginner's Mind Temple) of San Francisco Zen Center — the parent institution of one of the major American Sōtō Zen lineages — plus a dense network of independent Buddhist, Vedantic, and food-cooperative institutions.
What this is
[[mission-district-sf|San Francisco]] is the urban core of the San Francisco Bay bioregion — a peninsula city at the bay’s mouth, originally Ramaytush Ohlone territory, founded as Mission San Francisco de Asís in 1776 and incorporated in 1850. The post-1960s era made the city the U.S. seedbed for the organic-food movement, the contemplative-practice institutional landscape (San Francisco Zen Center founded 1962), the queer-liberation movement, and much of the ecological-design and back-to-the-land work that radiated from the Bay Area outward.
Listings in San Francisco
- [[san-francisco-zen-center]] — Beginner’s Mind Temple at 300 Page Street; founding location of the Suzuki Roshi lineage in the U.S.
Bioregional context
Files under [[san-francisco-bay-area]]. Pairs with [[woodacre]] (Spirit Rock) inland in Marin and with the SFZC sister centers across the bay (Green Gulch Farm in Sausalito, Tassajara in the Ventana Wilderness).
See also
Auto-generated from this entry’s typed relations: frontmatter, grouped by relation type so the editorial signal isn’t flattened.
- Member of: [[place]]
- Contained by: [[san-francisco-bay-area]]
- Contains: [[mission-district-sf]] · [[rainbow-grocery-cooperative]] · [[san-francisco-zen-center]]
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What links here, and how
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Practical
contained by
- Mission District central SF, surrounding Mission Dolores
- Rainbow Grocery Cooperative the city's longest-running worker-owned grocery cooperative
- San Francisco Zen Center Beginner's Mind Temple — 300 Page Street, the institutional headquarters
General
shares approach with
- San Francisco Bay auto-linked from body mention
4 inbound links · 2 outbound