Kaira Jewel Lingo
Kaira Jewel Lingo (born ca. 1974)[1] is a Dharma teacher who began practicing mindfulness who teaches Buddhist meditation, secular mindfulness, and compassion.[2] She teaches in the Vietnamese Zen lineage and the Vipassana tradition, at the intersection of racial, climate and social justice.[2]
Background[edit]
Lingo grew up Christian, in Chicago.[3] She also spent a few years of her childhood living outside Nairobi, Kenya.[1] Her father worked with Martin Luther King, Jr.[3][4] She is Black and biracial.[5]
She earned B.A. and M.A. at Stanford University in Anthropology and Social Sciences.[1][6]
Lingo lived as an ordained nun for 15 years in Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastic community, Plum Village.[2][6] She was ordained as a Buddhist nun in 1999 at age 25,[1] and as a Bhiksuni in 2003.[6]
She became a Zen teacher in 2007,[4] and now leads retreats and provides spiritual mentoring.
Writings[edit]
Lingo is the author of We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons in Moving through Change, Loss and Disruption from Parallax Press.[2][7] She is also the editor of Thich Nhat Hanh's Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children.[8]
She also has written for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.[9]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "About". KAIRA JEWEL LINGO. Retrieved 2023-02-18.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Kaira Jewel Lingo - Spirit Rock - An Insight Meditation Center". www.spiritrock.org. Retrieved 2023-02-18.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Kaira Jewel Lingo". San Francisco Zen Center. Retrieved 2023-02-18.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Kaira Jewel Lingo Mindfulness Meditation Online | Rubin Museum of Art". rubinmuseum.org. Retrieved 2023-02-18.
- ↑ "Who We Are". BIPOC Youth Justice and Healing Fellowship. Retrieved 2023-02-18.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Kim, Sumi Loundon (2016-06-14). The Buddha's Apprentices: More Voices of Young Buddhists. Simon and Schuster. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-86171-804-7. Search this book on
- ↑ "We Were Made for These Times – Parallax Press". www.parallax.org. Retrieved 2023-02-18.
- ↑ Lingo, Kaira Jewel (2022-04-19). "Touching the Earth: A Black Buddhist Perspective on Connecting with and Healing Ourselves and our Ancestors". The Journal of Contemplative Inquiry. 9 (1): 357–364. ISSN 2333-7281.
- ↑ "Kaira Jewel Lingo, Author at Tricycle: The Buddhist Review". Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. Retrieved 2023-02-18.
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