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Anushka
Fernandopulle
has practiced intensively in the Theravada Buddhist tradition over
the past 17 years in meditation centers and monasteries in the USA,
India, and Sri Lanka. She has been engaged in social justice work
throughout her life in such areas as youth development, HIV prevention,
LGBT organizing, immigrant/refugee rights, and grassroots community
development. She is currently in training as a dharma teacher at
Spirit Rock Meditation Center/Insight Meditation Society and works
as a consultant and trainer with community-based nonprofit organizations
helping them to function more effectively. myspace.com/anushkaf |
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Canyon
Sam
stumbled into the dharma when she was traveling in Tibet in 1986,
when that country first opened to foreign travel. She took refuge
later that year in Bodh Gaya with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Formerly
a Tibet activist, and before that an organizer in the gay/lesbian
rights movement in the Bay Area, she has been a student of Thich Nhat
Hanh for twenty years. She is a member of the Spirit Rock Diversity
Council, and author of the forthcoming book, Sky Train: A Journey
to Tell the Untold Stories of Tibetan Women. A third generation San
Franciscan, she is a published writer, nationally-acclaimed performance
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Bang
Nguyen
first practiced meditation and chanting in 1968 during the war in
Vietnam. Since 1998, he has been attending retreats with Thich Nhat
Hanh and practicing meditation with the People of Color Sitting
Group at the San Francisco Zen Center. |
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Zenju
Earthlyn Manuel, Ph.D.
has been a student of Buddha’s teachings for many years, initially
in Nichiren Buddhism and more recently in the Soto Zen tradition under
the guidance of Zenkei Blanche Hartman. She is the author of "Bearing
Up in the Wild Winds" in Dharma, Color, and Culture: New Voices
in Western Buddhism (Parallax Press), and "What Unknowing Things
Know: Zen Liberation in the Art of Romare Bearden" in the International
Review of African American Art. She is currently Executive Director
of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. |
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Arinna
Weisman
has studied Insight Meditation since 1979. She teaches in the lineage
of the Great Burmese teacher U Bha Khin. She was empowered to teach
by Ruth Denison and has been teaching since 1988. Arinna is the founding
teacher of Insight Meditation Center of the Pioneer Valley in Easthampton,
MA, and co-author of A Beginners Guide to Insight Meditation.
She has spent the last two years living in Thai Forest monasteries.
She is interested in how to build healthy communities and so her dharma
practice has been infused with political, anti-racist and multicultural
perspectives. arinnaweisman.org |
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