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	Charlotte Joko Beck is a Zen master, the 3rd Dharma heir of Hakuyu Maezumi Roshi and founder of the Ordinary Mind Zen School; she is head of the San Diego Zen Center and also teaches at the Prairie Zen Center in Champaign, Illinois. She has written two books and several short articles. Excerpts from Everyday Zen.
	Pema Chödrön, one of the foremost students of the late Ven. Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, is the resident teacher/director (abbess) of Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia - a Karma Kagyu centre affiliated with Vajradhatu and the Shambala Centers. Her books include: Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times, and Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings. "Barriers vs. Boundaries" and other teachings. See her teaching schedule
	Ven. Thubten Chodron (Cherry Greene) is a senior female teacher in the FPMT (Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition), in the Gelukpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Her most current project is the founding of Sravasti Abbey, a place where monastics and those preparing for ordination can learn and practice according to the teachings of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Chödrön wrote the book, Open Heart Clear Mind, and "My Favorite Pastime: Complaining" and other articles. Recent Q&A. Teaching schedule.
	Lucinda Treelight Green, Ph.D. is a Dharma teacher in the Theravada lineage and director of Rocky Mountain Insight in Colorado Springs, Co., USA. She received Dharma transmission from Ruth Denison of Dhamma Dena in southern California, who received transmission from U Ba Khin of Burma. In 1985, she entered a nunnery in Sri Lanka under the tutelage of Venerable Ayya Khema. Songs of the Dharma: Buddhist chants in Pali and English and metta and sweeping meditations are available from Treelight Productions. Teachings.
Gaia House	Gaia House, a nonsectarian Buddhist centre in South Devon, England, offers Insight Meditation and Zen retreats throughout the year by many female teachers. These include the following (the tradition in which they studied is in parentheses): Christina Feldman, co-founder and spiritual director of Gaia House (Tibetan, Mahayana & Theravada), Martine Batchelor (Zen), Sharda Rogell (vipassana), and Thanissara (Western Buddhism). Retreat Schedule
	Joan Halifax is a Buddhist priest and student of Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh. She describes her approach to working with the terminally ill in her article "Being with Dying." And she offers a Being with Dying Professional Training Course. Joan also is involved in offering meditation and hospice to prisoners in the New Mexico prisons and with the National Network of Contemplative Prison Programs to collaborate on contemplative work in the prisons. She has written A Buddhist Life in America: Simplicity in the Complex and other writings. Interview with Joan.
	Lene Handberg, Psychologist and Psychotherapist U.D. She has been studying Tibetan philosophy, psychology, meditation and psychotherapy with Tarab Tulku for 15 years, and has also studied with several other well-known Tibetan Scholars. She has helped Tarab Rinpoche to develop the Unity in Duality Program and to establish the Tarab Institutes in Europe. She is the President of the T.I.-Denmark.
Zenkei Blanche Hartman	Zenkei Blanche Hartman, Abbess of The San Francisco Zen Center, began sitting in 1969 at the Berkeley Zen Center with Sojun Mel Weitsman and in San Francisco with Suzuki-roshi. She was ordained in 1977 by Zentatsu Baker and received dharma transmission with Sojun Mel Weitsman in 1988. Zenkei became Abbess February of 1996.
	Zen Master Seong Hyang (Barbara Rhodes) is the Vice School Zen Master and guiding Dharma Teacher of the Kwan Um School of Zen (Korean Son tradition), and the guiding teacher of Zen centers in Connecticut, Florida, Chicago and Colorado. She received Dharma transmission from Zen Master Seung Sahn in October 1992. A registered nurse, she works for Hospice Care of Rhode Island. Teachings Archives.
Insight Meditation Society	The Insight Meditation Society (IMS) of Barre, Massachussetts, USA is home to many resident and visiting female teachers. The site includes photos and biographies of Ruth Denison, Christina Feldman, Narayan Liebenson Grady, Kamala Masters, Michele McDonald-Smith, Sharon Salzburg and Carol Wilson. See their teaching schedule for current retreat details.
	Ven. Sangye Khadro (Kathleen McDonald) was ordained as a nun in 1974 and is one of the foremost Western teachers in the FPMT tradition. Her book How to Meditate is an excellent introduction to Buddhist practice. Ven. Sangye Khadro served as the resident teacher of the FPMT's Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore and now travels around the world to study, teach, and engage in retreat.
	Jetsunma Ahkön Lhamo is an American tulku (reincarnate lama) of Jewish-Italian background who belongs to the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. She is the resident teacher of Kunzang Palyul Chöling in Poolesville, Maryland, USA. A Teaching Catalog is available.
	Khandro Rinpoche is a Tibetan tulku (incarnate lama), also ordained as a nun, and teaches in both the Kagyu and Nyingma traditions. She speaks English, Tibetan and Hindi and travels and teaches throughout Europe, Southeast Asia, and North America.
	Jetsunma Kushok Chimey Luding is the resident spiritual director of the Vancouver Sakya Centre in British Columbia, Canada. She is one of the senior most lamas of the Sakya lineage and is sister of the head of the lineage, H.H. Sakya Trizin. Jetsunma is also regarded as an incarnation of the Highest Yoga Tantra female deity Vajrayogini.
	Ven. Jamyang Sakya (known to her students as Dagmola) is a Tibetan Buddhist teacher of the Sakya order and the founder and teacher of the Mother Tara Sakya Center. Dagmola is featured in The Book of Tibetan Elders and herself co-authored Princess of the Snows, a story of her family's escape over the Himalyan Mountains.Teaching Information.
	Sharon Salzberg has been a student of Buddhism since 1971, and has been leading meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. She teaches both intensive awareness practice (vipassana or insight meditation) and the profound cultivation of lovingkindness and compassion (the Brahma Viharas). She is a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and The Forest Refuge, a new center for long term meditation practice. Online Teachings. "Lessons on Faith."
Sei-un An	Sei-un An Roselyn Stone of the Mountain Moon Zen Buddhist Group is a Canadian-born Zen Master of the Sanbo Kyodan lineage which combines elements from the Japanese Soto and Rinzai traditions. She has zendos in Brisbane, Australia and Toronto, Canada.
	Ajahn Sundara, born in France, was one of the first four women ordained in England by Ajahn Sumedho in 1979 in the Thai Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah. She has been involved in the establishment and the training of the nuns' community at Chithurst and Amaravati Buddhist Monasteries in England and since the late 1980's she has taught and led retreats in Europe and the United States. She is interested in exploring ways of practicing, sustaining, and integrating Buddhist teachings in Western culture. She is currently residing at Abhayagiri Monastery in Redwood Valley, California. Dhamma Talks. Interview.
Taraloka	Taraloka is a Buddhist women's community and retreat centre. We hold a year-round program of events and retreats varying in length from one day to two weeks. It is part of the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order, a movement founded in 1967 by Sangharakshita. The FWBO seeks to establish Buddhist principles in the modern world, drawing inspiration from the whole of the Buddhist tradition as well as from Western art and culture. The FWBO has public centres in many cities throughout the world. Taraloka's aim is to help women from all walks of life to contact and realise their potential.
	Karma Lekshe Tsomo teaches Buddhism and World Religions at the University of San Diego. A fully ordained American nun practicing in the Tibetan tradition, she is president of Sakyadhita: International Association of Buddhist Women and has helped organize nine national and international Sakyadhita conferences since 1987. She helped found eight education programs for women in the India Himalayas. Her books include Sakyadhita: Daughters of the Buddha; Buddhism Through American Women's Eyes; Innovative Buddhist Women: Swimming Against the Stream; Sisters in Solitude: Two Traditions of Monastic Ethics for Women; Buddhist Women Across Cultures: Realizations; Liviing and Dying in Buddhist Cultures (with David W. Chappell).