Ji Hyang Padma

Dr. Ji Hyang Padma is a Core Candidate Associate Professor for Naropa University's Masters of Divinity program. She has done intensive Zen training and teaching for over twenty-five years as a scholar- practitioner, fourteen years in monastic training. She has received Lay Entrustment Transmission in the Soto Zen lineage of Shunryu Suzuki. She has served Tufts University, Northeastern University, Wellesley College, Brandeis University, and Babson University as a chaplain. She has served as Meditation Teacher in Residence at Omega Institute for seventeen years. Ji Hyang Padma directed the Comparative Religion and Philosophy Program at California Institute for Human Science. She has written two books, Living the Season: Zen practice for transformative times, and Field of Blessing: Ritual and consciousness in the work of Buddhist healers. She holds a B.A. degree from Wellesley College and a PhD degree from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. She is also an MBSR teacher and reiki practitioner and enjoys facilitating restorative justice circles on issues of race and gender.