Contributors Winter 2011

Thubten Chonyi

began her dharma study with Ven. Thubten Chodron at Dharma Friendship Foundation in Seattle in the mid-1990s. She took novice ordination at Sravasti Abbey in 2008, and received bhikshuni ordination in November 2011.

Laura Hauer

is a co-founder of FOCM, and sits on its board as treasurer. She worked for 11 years as the Cloud Mountain business director.

Bill Hirsch

is a Northwest Dharma Association board member, and an ordained priest in the White Cloud Buddhist Society.

Jeff Kerr

attends the Portland Insight Meditation Center and is also the outreach coordinator for the Northwest Dharma Association. He is a volunteer with the Oregon Prison Project and leads a meditation group in a county jail.

Thich Nguyen Kim

ordained in Vietnam and graduated from Quoc Hoc National College in Hue City. He teaches dhamma to the laity, especially children, at Chua Co Lam Vietnamese Buddhist Temple in Seattle.

Mark Kirlin

lives in the Portland area and has served as a police officer for 18 years. His Buddhist practice is primarily in the Tibetan Nyingma and Kagyu traditions. He is married, with two children.

Robert Lovitt

is the contact person for Olympia’s South Sound Buddhist Peace Fellowship. Professor Ewan Magie has been an adjunct professor at Bellevue College since 2001. In Seattle he practices with Seattle Soto Zen and Seattle Insight Meditation Society.

Joyce Michelson

is a practitioner in the vipassana tradition and a Seattle Insight Meditation Society board member. She has been a supporter of Project Kesho since 2008.

Timothy O’Brien

is office manager of the Northwest Dharma Association.

Ann Oxrieder

is webmaster, publicity volunteer and a member of Seattle Betsuin Buddhist Temple in Seattle.

Tracey Pickup

is the temple keeper at Mountain Lamp community. She is a member of the Order of Interbeing in the Plum Village tradition. Her dharma name is True Fragrant Field.

Nathan Robnett-Conover

is a student at Portland State University. He has practiced Recollective Awareness meditation for eight years, and is a member of the Pine Street Sangha.

Julia King Tamangy

is an associate teacher at Kagyu Changchub Chuling, which has been her dharma home for nearly 20 years. She aspires to sit KCC's first three-year retreat.

Jordan Van Voast

is the co-founder of CommuniChi Acupuncture clinic in Seattle, and a practitioner in the Gelugpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He has served on the board of the Dharma Friendship Foundation since 2003.

Steve Wilhelm

is a former board president of Northwest Dharma Association, co-facilitator (with his wife Ellen) of the Eastside Seattle Insight Meditation Society sitting group, and editor of Northwest Dharma News.

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