Bobby Rhodes
Barbara Rhodes is Head Zen Master of the Kwan Um School of Zen and a retired Hospice nurse with over 40 years of practice and teaching experience. She received Inka in 1977 and dharma transmission in 1992 from Zen master Seung Sahn. She has been teaching and leading retreats since 1978, and has been the head teacher of the international Kwan Um School of Zen since her teacher’s death in 2004. She is an outstanding down to earth teacher, well-respected in the Buddhist community, reflected by her inclusion in "Meetings with Remarkable Women: Buddhist Teachers in America," Revised and Updated Edition, by Lenore Friedman (2000), which also includes such influential teachers as Pema Chodron, Charlotte Joko Beck, and Sharon Salzberg. She was also included in "Zen Master Who?: A Guide to the People and Stories of Zen" (Wisdom Publications, 2006). Bobby was invited to contribute to two books. She wrote an essay titled “Bowing to the Great Mirror,“ in Being Bodies: Buddhist Wisdom on the Paradox of Embodiment (Lenore Friedman and Susan Moon, eds, Shambhala Publications, Inc., 1997). Then authored the essay “Mansoeng’s No Cultivation,” in The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women (Florence Caplow and Susan Moon, eds, Wisdom Publications, 2013). www.kwanumzen.org
