Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers & Practitioners
Ryan Lee Wong: Zen Practice As Community Building
Guest
Ryan Lee Wong is author of the novel Which Side Are You On, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel. He lived for two years at Ancestral Heart Temple and is the Administrative Director of Brooklyn Zen Center.
Some of Ryan's publications include:
- Which Side Are You On, his novel published in 2023.
- Every Past Life All At Once, a critical essay on the films Past Lives and Everything Everywhere All At Once on The AMP.
- The Buddha on TV: Nam June Paik's fraught relationship to Buddhism, on PBS: American Masters
Check out his website to read more and stay updated.
IG: @ryanlwong
Your Host
REVEREND DANA TAKAGI (she/her) is a retired professor of Sociology and zen priest, practicing zen since 1998. She spent 33 years teaching sociology and Asian American history at UC Santa Cruz, and she is a past president of the Association for Asian American Studies.
Guest
Ryan Lee Wong is author of the novel Which Side Are You On, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel. He lived for two years at Ancestral Heart Temple and is the Administrative Director of Brooklyn Zen Center.
Some of Ryan's publications include:
- Which Side Are You On, his novel published in 2023.
- Every Past Life All At Once, a critical essay on the films Past Lives and Everything Everywhere All At Once on The AMP.
- The Buddha on TV: Nam June Paik's fraught relationship to Buddhism, on PBS: American Masters
Check out his website to read more and stay updated.
IG: @ryanlwong
Your Host
REVEREND DANA TAKAGI (she/her) is a retired professor of Sociology and zen priest, practicing zen since 1998. She spent 33 years teaching sociology and Asian American history at UC Santa Cruz, and she is a past president of the Association for Asian American Studies.