Complex sentence: Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, or Zenshinji was established in 1966 by Shunryu Suzuki in the Ventana Wilderness area of California's Los Padres National Forest, east of Big Sur, as the first Soto Zen Buddhist monastery in the United States.
Split into simpler sentences: Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, or Zenshinji, was established in 1966 by Shunryu Suzuki in the Ventana Wilderness area of California's Los Padres National Forest, east of Big Sur. It was the first Soto Zen Buddhist monastery in the United States.