Caitriona Reed

Caitriona Reed (born 1949) is a trans woman sensei of Thiền Zen Buddhism who also has a background in Vipassana. She co-founded Ordinary Dharma in Los Angeles, California—as well as its rural retreat center Manzanita Village Retreat Center, located in San Diego County. Reed, a member of the American Zen Teachers Association, has been teaching Buddhism since 1981. She received her authority to teach Zen from Thich Nhat Hanh in 1992. She is a 'woman of transsexual experience' who transitioned in 1996. She remarks on her experience of changing sex, "As a teacher encouraging others to live more honest and authentic lives, it was increasingly difficult for me to deny a basic fact—that I was a woman."^[1] Together with her partner Michele Benzamin Masuda at Manzanita, Reed conducts mindfulness retreats, workshops, and seminars influenced by her teacher Nhat Hanh, and also teaches deep ecology, social responsibility and personal development training. In addition to conducting retreats, she is also a performance coach, consultant and NLP master-trainer and hypnotherapist.^[2][3][4]

See also

• Buddhism in the United States
• Homosexuality and Buddhism
• Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States

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