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 Former Buddhist monk, journalist, satirist, activist for global human rights.
Read Diana Winston for a better understanding of relating Buddhism to teens.
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Diana Winston has been a Buddhist practitioner since she was 22. While traveling in Asia she found her way to Dharamsala, India where she first encountered Buddhism. She realized she had found what she was looking for, even if she didn't know she was searching. She spent the next ten years meditating in monasteries and retreat centers in the US and Asia, including a year in 1998 as a Buddhist nun in a monastery in Burma (Myanmar).
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She served as the Associate Director of Buddhist Peace Fellowship in Berkeley California, where she founded the Buddhist Alliance for Social Engagement (BASE). BASE is the first Buddhist volunteer service organization, a kind of urban Buddhist peace corps. She is a member of the Think Sangha, a Buddhist "think tank" dedicated to writing and research on Buddhist social issues.
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Currently she teaches meditation for Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Insight Meditation Society, and other venues nationally. She also teaches socially engaged Buddhism. She has been teaching teenagers to meditate since 1993 through classes, retreats, school visits, and others.
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She has written for a number of publications including Tricycle, Inquiring Mind, Turning Wheel, Fellowship Magazine, ReVision Magazine, and others.
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