David Chadwick, a Longtime Supporter of the San Francisco Zen Center, Has Died
As Shunryu Suzuki’s biographer and the archivist of SFZC, he kept the memory of the beloved Soto Zen master alive.
David Chadwick
David Chadwick (1945–2026) was a Soto Zen priest and writer who began practicing at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1966 and was ordained by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in 1971. He wrote Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki, Thank You and OK!: An American Zen Failure in Japan, and the Tassajara Stories series. Through the Cuke Archives, he preserved materials on Suzuki and his students.
Tracing Beginnings at Tassajara
In an excerpt from his new memoir, author David Chadwick looks back at the opening of the first Zen center in the West.
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