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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

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).

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