Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers & Practitioners

Grief Practices with Rev. Dana Takagi

Rev. Liên Shutt & Rev. Dana Takagi

Rev. Dana shares some of the ways she practices with grief.

Mentioned in the episode:
World Central Kitchen (website)

Dai Hi Shin Dharani (Sutra of Great Compassion) (text)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjSzOHqYBK4 (video)
(read this blog post by Dana: https://danatakagizenlife.squarespace.com/blog)

Enmei Jukku Kannon Gyo (Well-Being Chant) (Access to Zen text and audio)


NEW Co-Host: Reverend Dana Takagi
Dana (she/her) is a retired professor of Sociology and also a zen priest. She spent 33 years teaching sociology and Asian Am history at UC Santa Cruz, she is a past president of the Association for Asian American Studies.  Zen practice since 1998.

Check out more of Dana's work:
2022: Sutra and Bible: an Interview with Duncan Ryūken Williams
2020: Most Intimate, Ordinary Way, Recollections of Katherine Thanas  (co-eds. with Eugene Bush; 2nd printing 2022)

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