• Jizo Bodhisattva, Modern Healing and Traditional Buddhist Practice (has been re-issued in paperback as Jizo Bodhisattva, Guardian of Children, Women and Other Voyagers).

Pediatrician, Zen teacher, writer.

• Born on the day the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan in 1945.

• She is a pediatrician and medical director of the child abuse programs in Emanuel Hospital, Portland. After graduating from Swarthmore College she received medical training at University of California, San Diego. For ten years she served as medical director of the Child Abuse Response and Assessment Center (CARES NW) at Legacy Children's Hospital in Portland, Oregon where over 1,000 children and families are seen each year for concerns of abuse and neglect. She has written a number of articles for medical journals and also book chapters on aspects of child abuse including substance abuse and child abuse, child abuse by poisoning, and conditions mistaken for child abuse.

• She has studied and practiced Zen Buddhism since 1973. She started study with Maezumi Roshi (1974), and was ordained as a Zen priest (1977), received jukai (1975), tokudo (1979) and given authorization to teach (inka) in 1983 with the same teacher. With her husband, Hogen Bays, she teaches at Zen Community of Oregon and Great Vow Zen Monastery, a residential center for intensive Zen training in Clatskanie, Oregon.

• She has contributed many articles about Zen in Tricycle and other Buddhist magazines.