rodashruti

rodashruti

rodashruti was introduced to the Dharma in 1986 by her then-girlfriend, a Jodo Shinshu Buddhist who handed her a book called Everyday Suchness. That same girlfriend introduced her to the concept of cultural appropriation. Struggling with how to approach Buddhist...
Prajñākavī

Prajñākavī

Prajñākavī (Prajnakavi) means Poet of Wisdom. She was ordained October 2023 near Cuernavaca in Mexico. Prajnakavi is a poet, artist, mother, grandmother, former teacher and editor – among many other things. She has been practicing with the SFBC since the early...
Nanasiri

Nanasiri

Nanasiri took her first meditation class in 1991 in San Francisco. She was looking for a buddhist community and was fortunate enough to find this one!  She became a mitra in 1995, around the time that the current shrine room was coming into being, and her ceremony was...
Medhahshri

Medhahshri

Medhahshri was ordained in 2017, a few months before her 75th birthday.  So you could say she came late to Buddhism, but for her it was just the right time.  When she walked into the San Francisco Buddhist Center’s drop-in meditation in 2005, she was angry and...