• Buddhism for Beginners

• I Wonder Why

• Taming the Monkey Mind

• Open Heart, Clear Mind

• What Color is Your Mind?

• Working with Anger

• Pearl of Wisdom. Buddhist Prayers and Practices

• Blossoms of the Dharma. Living as a Buddhist Nun

• Transforming the Heart. The Buddhist Way to Joy and Courage (edited)

• Choosing Simplicity (edited)

• Towards A Western Buddhism: Western Buddhist Teachers In Dialogue With The Dalai Lama (Ed.)
   

American Buddhist nun in the Tibetan tradition, guiding meditation teacher, propagator, writer.

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Born as Cherry Greene in 1950 in Los Angeles.

She graduated with a BA in History from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1971.
 
Attended a meditation course by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche (1975), and subsequently went to their monastery in Nepal to continue to study and practice. Ordained a novice in 1977 and received the higher ordination in Taiwan in 1986.

She studied and practiced Buddhism of the Tibetan tradition for many years in India and Nepal, and directed the spiritual program at Lama Tsong Khapa Institute in Italy for nearly two years. She studied three years at Dorje Pamo Monastery in France and was resident teacher at Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore. Co-founder of Sravasti Abbey, a monastery located in the US Midwest. Co-organizer of Life as a Western Buddhist Nun, and took part in the conferences of Western Buddhist teachers with H.H. the Dalai Lama in 1993 and 1994.

She currently lives and teaches in Seattle with Dharma Friendship Foundation and continues to travel worldwide to teach Dharma.