Zen Practice As Community Building with Ryan Lee Wong

Guest
Ryan Lee Wong is author of the novel Which Side Are
You On, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel.
He lived for two years at Ancestral Heart Temple and is the
Administrative Director of Brooklyn Zen Center.

Some of Ryan's publications include:


Which Side Are You On, his novel published in 2023. 

Every Past Life All At Once, a critical essay on the films
Past Lives and Everything Everywhere All At Once on The AMP.

The Buddha on TV: Nam June Paik's fraught relationship to
Buddhism, on PBS: American Masters



Check out his website to read more and stay updated.

IG: @ryanlwong 



Your Host
REVEREND DANA TAKAGI (she/her) is a
retired professor of Sociology and zen priest, practicing zen
since 1998. She spent 33 years teaching sociology and Asian
American history at UC Santa Cruz, and she is a past president of
the Association for Asian American Studies.