Green Gulch Farm Zen Center

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The Green Dragon Temple at the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center

The Green Gulch Farm Zen Center (also Soryu-ji , English Temple of the Green Dragon ) is a Zen center in the tradition of the Japanese Sōtō School near Muir Beach , Marin County , California . It was founded in 1972 by Rōshi Richard Dudley Baker , then director of the San Francisco Zen Center , and is located in a narrow valley 27 kilometers north of San Francisco .

In addition to meditation courses and introductions to the Japanese tea ceremony , the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center also offers courses lasting several months on organic farming . The horticultural complex was designed by the renowned English gardener Alan Chadwick (1909–1980), who is also buried near the Zen center. Also buried near the center is the English philosopher Alan Watts (1915–1973), who studied Zen Buddhism intensively and lived on one of Sausalito's houseboats not far from the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center .

Like Japanese Zen monasteries, the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center also offers overnight stays for guests. The majority of these guests take part in the Buddhist ceremonies of the approximately 50 permanent residents of the center.

With reference to the connection between organic agriculture and Zen Buddhism, the American author Fenton Johnson stated that the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center serves "as a model for life in the country in the context of Buddhist Zen practice".

The center is one of the places where Edward Espe Brown in the documentary How to Cook Your Life of Doris Dörrie introduces viewers to the art of cooking.

Views

  • View of part of the garden

  • The Wheelwright Center , named after George Wheelwright, the previous owner of the land belonging to the Zen Center

  • South elevation of the Wheelwright Center

  • The Lindisfarne Guesthouse for overnight guests

  • Interior view of Lindisfarne Guesthouse (ground floor)

  • Only vegetarian dishes are prepared in the kitchen of the Zen Center

Web links

Commons : Green Gulch Farm  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jonathan Kauffman: Spend the night at a Zen retreat in Marin , in: San Francisco Chronicle, May 29, 2015, last accessed April 19, 2016.
  2. ^ "… Serve [s] as a model for living on the land in the context of a Zen Buddhist practice.", Fenton Johnson: Keeping Faith: A Skeptic's Journey , Boston [2004], p. 54.

Coordinates: 37 ° 51'56 "  N , 122 ° 33'50"  W.