San Francisco Zen Center is a Soto Zen Buddhist organization founded in 1962 by Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. It operates three practice centers, City Center in San Francisco, Green Gulch Farm, and Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, offering meditation instruction, residential training, and public programs. It is one of the largest Zen Buddhist sanghas outside Asia.