San Francisco Zen Center
Tabreez Govani is an experienced technology professional currently serving as a Zen Monk at San Francisco Zen Center since February 2022. Prior to this role, Tabreez was on sabbatical from July 2020 until January 2022, focusing on traveling, exploring life, and studying Zen. From January 2016 to July 2020, Tabreez held the position of Director of Engineering and Principal Software Architect at eBay, overseeing architecture for eBay Search and critical micro-services. Earlier, Tabreez founded Sparktrend, serving as Chief Product Officer, and also founded AlphaNectar. Tabreez's career includes significant experience at Microsoft Corporation from July 2006 to December 2011, where multiple development teams were led in areas related to Bing. Tabreez holds a Bachelor of Science degree with a double major in Computer Science and Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University, completed in 2006.
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San Francisco Zen Center
San Francisco Zen Center was established in 1962 by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi (1904-1971) and his American students. Suzuki Roshi is known to countless readers as the author of the modern spiritual classic, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. The purpose of San Francisco Zen Center is to make accessible and embody the wisdom and compassion of the Buddha as expressed in the Soto Zen tradition established by Dogen Zenji in 13th-century Japan and conveyed to us by Suzuki Roshi and other Buddhist teachers. Our practice flows from the insight that all beings are Buddha, and that sitting in meditation is itself the realization of Buddha nature, or enlightenment. Today, San Francisco Zen Center is one of the largest Buddhist sanghas outside Asia. It has three practice places: City Center, in the vibrant heart of San Francisco; Green Gulch Farm, whose organic fields meet the ocean in Marin County; and Tassajara Zen Mountain Center—the first Zen training monastery in the West—in the Ventana Wilderness inland from Big Sur. These three complementary practice centers offer daily meditation, regular monastic retreats and practice periods, classes, lectures, and workshops. Zen Center is a practice place for a diverse population of students, visitors, lay people, priests, and monks guided by teachers who follow in Suzuki Roshi's style of warm hand and heart to warm hand and heart. All are welcome. Zen Center programs also reach out to the community, helping prisoners, the homeless, and those in recovery; protecting the environment; and working for peace. See our outreach program for details. Suzuki Roshi's disciples and students of his disciples now lead dharma groups around the country.