Speaker:   Kuya Minogue

Dharma Talk Topic: Women Living the Diamond Sutra

Bio: Kuya began her Zen practice in 1986 at an outreach priory of Shasta Abbey Monastery. Since then she has trained briefly with several different Zen communities. In 2015, she ordained as a novice priest in the Silent Thunder Order with Zenku Smyers as her guiding teacher and studied with him for six years. She is resident priest at Sakuraji, a temple in the rural community of Creston, BC ,where she teaches Zen practice. She also teaches Zen Writing practice and is certified as an instructor in Long White Cloud Medical Qigong. She has published one book on Dogen’s Mountain and Rivers Sutra and is working on another, Living the Diamond Sutra: A Women’s Commentary (working title). She is a poet and a radical.