San Francisco Zen Center
Tylan Greenstein is an accomplished communications professional and musician with extensive experience in various roles. Currently serving as Communications Manager and previously as Communications Coordinator at the San Francisco Zen Center since November 2020, Tylan has also worked as a singer-songwriter with Mouths of Babes from August 2013 to November 2023. From 2014 to 2020, Tylan operated as a freelance copywriter and provided administrative support at the Family Violence Appellate Project in 2014. Co-founder of Girlyman, Inc., Tylan performed over 800 international shows and composed numerous songs from January 2001 to September 2013. Tylan began professional life as an Advertising Assistant at Tricycle Magazine, where responsibilities included managing classified advertising and supporting content generation. Tylan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, earned between 1992 and 1996.
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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.