Dharma Travels: Meeting the Extended Family of Western Zen- Zen Teacher Jomon

From a Gen X teachers conference in Virginia to a White Plum Asanga gathering in the Dutch wheat fields, this talk traces a month of encounters with the living, ever-expanding family of Western Buddhism — Theravadan monks from Guadalajara, Tendai priests in Springfield, Chan teachers from Dublin — and brings back the felt sense that our practice is part of something vastly larger than any single room.