1962 AD
San Francisco Zen Center founded
Religion · Buddhist traditions · Diaspora · Chan-Zen
Shunryu Suzuki and his students founded San Francisco Zen Center in 1962. This is a documented case of Zen institutionalization in the United States, not the beginning of all Western communities.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- Dating in the source document
- 1962
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- 2026-09-04
Reading the date: point event.
Sources
- San Francisco Zen Center — About (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- Not identified in metadata; document review pending
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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