Kitty

Kitty became a Mitra with the Boston Sangha before moving to San Francisco.
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...