Great Dharma Teachers: Mushim Patricia Ikeda

Mushim Patricia Ikeda is a Buddhist teacher and leader at the East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland California, which is developing important new models for Buddhist communities in the twenty-first century. Lion’s Roar editor-in-chief Melvin McLeod sat down with her at her home in Oakland to talk about her life as a poet, nun, single mother, and leader in progressive Buddhism.