10 BUDDHADHARMA: THE PRACTITIONER'S QUARTERLY
THANISSARA trained
for twelve years as a
nun in the Thai Forest
Tradition and was a
founding member of
both Chithurst Mon-
astery and Amaravati
Buddhist Monastery.
She later cofounded
Dharmagiri Insight
Meditation Centre
in South Africa. She
now lives in the San
Francisco Bay Area and
teaches at Insight Med-
itation Society and at
Spirit Rock. Her most
recent book is Time to
Stand Up: An Engaged
Buddhist Manifesto for
Our Earth.CONTRIBUTORS
JUE LIANG is a doctoral
candidate in the de-
partment of religious
studies at University of
Virginia, where she is
completing her disser-
tation, “Conceiving the
Mother of Tibet: The
Life, Lives, and After-
life of the Buddhist
Saint Yeshe Tsogyel.”
In her research, she
reflects on gender dis-
courses of Tibetan Bud-
dhist communities, past
and present. She is also
interested in the theory
and practice of trans-
lating Tibetan poetry,
especially songs of real-
ization and devotion.JOAN SUTHERLAND,
ROSHI, is a founder of
the Pacific Zen School
(a contemporary koan
school), as well as the
founding teacher of
The Open Source, a
network that includes
sanghas in Colorado,
Arizona, and the Bay
Area. Now retired
from working directly
with students, her
teachings continue
through Cloud Dragon,
an online source for
her writings and talks.
She is the author of
Vimalakirti & the
Awakened Heart.SARA LEWIS brings
her training as both a
psychotherapist and
an anthropologist of
religion and medicine
to Naropa Univer-
sity, where she teaches
contemplative psycho-
therapy and Buddhist
psychology. Her work
(including her book
Spacious Minds:
Trauma and Resilience
in Tibetan Buddhism,
which will be published
next year), explores
“how individuals and
communities cope with
the vicissitudes of life—
not in spite of suffer-
ing, but through it, and
because of it.”(PHOTOCR
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