Sister Dang Nghiem 2
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Sister Đẳng Nghiêm | |
|---|---|
 Nghiêm at Deer Park Monastery in 2021 | |
| Other names | Sister D |
| Personal | |
| Born | 26 September 1968 Quang Ngai, Central Vietnam |
| Religion | Thiền Buddhism Vietnamese Zen Buddhism |
| School | Linji school (Lâm Tế)[1] Order of Interbeing Plum Village Tradition |
| Other names | Sister D |
| Senior posting | |
| Teacher | Thích Nhất Hạnh |
| Based in | Deer Park Monastery |
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Venerable Sister Dang Nghiem (born Huynh Thi Ngoc Huong on 26 September 1968) is a Vietnamese American Buddhist nun and mindfulness teacher teaching based in Southern California.[2] Her Dharma name means "Adornment with Nondiscrimination." Since receiving authorization to teach the Dharma from peace activist and Zen meditation master Thích Nhất Hạnh in 2008, she has become one of the most senior English-speaking monastic teachers in the Thiền Buddhist Plum Village Tradition founded by Thích Nhất Hạnh.
Prior to ordaining as a nun, Ven. Sister Dang Nghiem was a medical doctor. In 2019, she was selected to deliver the second T. T. and W. F. Chao Distinguished Buddhist Lecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the second honoree after Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi gave the inaugural lecture in 2018.[3] She has authored an autobiography as well as two books on the application of mindfulness to anxiety, depression, childhood trauma, Post-traumatic stress disorder, and Lyme disease. She regularly gives public talks in person and online, featuring on channels such as the Plum Village Online Monastery[4] and Dan Harris's Ten Percent Happier podcast.[5] In 2021, Sister Dang Nghiem was invited onto "World of Wisdom" from the BBC World Service hosted by Nuala McGovern. Alongside spiritual author Eckhart Tolle, she addressed how to recover from trauma and the pain of isolation during the 2020–2021 COVID-19 pandemic.[6] She is a senior Dharma teacher in residence at Deer Park Monastery in Escondido, California.
Early life and education[edit]
Sister Dang Nghiem was born in Central Vietnam in 1968, the year of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, the child of her Vietnamese mother and an unknown American service member. According to her memoir, Healing: A Woman's Journey from Doctor to Nun, she suffered from physical and sexual abuse in childhood.[7] After her mother disappeared in 1980 and was found dead, Sister Dang Nghiem was raised by her grandmother. At the age of 17, she and her younger brother emigrated to the United States in a program to foster Amerasian orphan children under the Amerasian Homecoming Act.[8] She lived in various foster homes and obtained two bachelor's degrees in psychology and creative writing, going on to earn a degree in medicine from the UCSF School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco in 1999. Sister Dang Nghiem began studying mindfulness with Zen master Thích Nhất Hạnh, who was visiting the San Francisco Bay Area during her medical residency. Shortly thereafter, her partner drowned during an open ocean swim. Sister Dang Nghiem traveled to Thích Nhất Hạnh's Plum Village Monastery in France to seek healing. Daily training in mindfulness in daily life as a nun became the foundation of Sister Dang Nghiem's approach to applying mindfulness to tragic loss, trauma, chronic illness, and other difficult life circumstances.[9]
She took vows to enter the Order of Interbeing and ordained as a novice in the Plum Village Tradition on May 18, 2000.[10] She trained at Plum Village Monastery in France and at Bát Nhã Temple in Vietnam. In January 2008, Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh gave Sister Dang Nghiem authorization to teach in a Lamp Transmission ceremony.[11]
Approach[edit]
Sister Dang Nghiem's approach to mental wellness draws on both her mindfulness practice in Thích Nhất Hạnh's Plum Village Tradition and her training as a medical doctor. Her emphasis on the connection between mindfulness and physical health and the body is a strong feature of her teaching and writing.[citation needed]
Since ordaining, Sister Dang Nghiem has taught mindfulness in monasteries, meditation centers, hospitals, universities, and other settings. Noted for her empathy and ability to apply the teaching of Pratītyasamutpāda (interdependent coarising or interbeing) to suffering in everyday life, Sister Dang Nghiem gives advice on the subject of trauma, grief, and loss in public talks and in the media.[12][13][14]
Reception[edit]
James Doty, clinical professor of neurosurgery at Stanford University and director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, writes of Sister Dang Nghiem's teaching, “Through her own story and those of many others, Sister Dang Nghiem, MD, offers a path to healing from childhood sexual abuse through mindfulness ... a path that allows one to reclaim their childhood and move forward in their lives and to heal what for many is a very deep wound.” [15] Sister Dang Nghiem's book Flowers in the Dark was reviewed in Publishers Weekly as an "accessible and insightful work … valuable to anyone seeking personal growth or comfort for pain," saying that people "who have experienced severe traumas will find those treated here with sensitivity and compassion, and may find reasons to hope."[16]
Bibliography[edit]
Autobiography[edit]
- Healing: A Woman's Journey from Doctor to Nun (Parallax Press, 2006)
Post-Traumatic Growth[edit]
- Mindfulness as Medicine: A Story of Healing Body and Spirit (Parallax Press, 2015)
- Flowers in the Dark: Reclaiming Your Power to Heal from Trauma with Mindfulness (Parallax Press, 2021)
References[edit]
- ↑ Carolan, Trevor (January 1, 1996). "Mindfulness Bell: A Profile of Thich Nhat Hanh". Lion's Roar. Retrieved November 28, 2020.
- ↑ Colburn, Nadia (October 31, 2014). "Still Harbor: Healing Presence: Interview with Sister Dang Nghiem". Still Harbor (magazine). Retrieved November 28, 2020.
- ↑ Hickler, Lisa (April 15, 2019). "MIT News: Buddhist nun Sister Dang Nghiem invites MIT community to practice mindfulness". MIT News. Retrieved November 28, 2020.
- ↑ Plum Village. "The Plum Village Online Monastery". Plum Village France (YouTube channel). Retrieved January 10, 2022.
- ↑ Harris, Dan (December 8, 2021). "This Episode Will Make You Stronger". 10 Percent Happier (podcast). Retrieved January 10, 2022.
- ↑ McGovern, Nuala (March 20, 2021). "The Documentary: World of Wisdom". BBC World Service (radio). Retrieved May 9, 2021.
- ↑ Nghiem, Sister Dang (9 October 2006). Healing. Berkeley, California: Parallax Press. ISBN 9781888375961. Search this book on
- ↑ Nhat Hanh, Thich (May 10, 2010). Together We Are One. Berkeley, California: Parallax Press. p. 16. ISBN 9781935209430. Search this book on
- ↑ O' Connor, Siobhan (December 30, 2013). "Prevention Magazine: Zen Lessons On Healing After Loss". Prevention (magazine). Retrieved November 29, 2020.
- ↑ Nghiem, Sister Dang (2006). Healing: A Woman's Journey from Doctor to Nun. Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press. ISBN 978-1888375961. Search this book on
- ↑ Plum Village App. "Author: Sister Dang Nghiem". plumvillage.app). Retrieved January 12, 2022.
- ↑ Lipsett, Megan. "Using Mindfulness to Reclaim Your Power and Heal Trauma". California Institute of Integral Studies. Retrieved May 12, 2021.
- ↑ Hosking, Taylor (8 October 2020). "My mother died of Covid. I turned to other women of color for advice on loss". The Guardian. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
- ↑ McGovern, Nuala (September 15, 2021). "BBC World Service World of Wisdom". BBC World Service (radio). Retrieved January 10, 2022.
- ↑ Doty, James (January 5, 2021). "Flowers in the Dark: Reclaiming Your Power to Heal from Trauma with Mindfulness". Retrieved January 10, 2022.
- ↑ "Book Review: Flowers in the Dark: Reclaiming Your Power to Heal from Trauma with Mindfulness". Publishers Weekly. January 5, 2021. Retrieved January 10, 2022.
External links[edit]
- Ordained in Plum Village France plumvillage.org
- Deer Park Monastery deerparkmonastery.org
- Profile on the Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism website
- Profile on Parallax Press website
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