Florence Caplow, Susan Moon, Daijaku Kinst, and Shinshu Roberts

The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women is a collection of one hundred koans and stories of Buddhist women from the time of the Buddha to the present day. Bookshop Santa Cruz is lucky enough to bring together four of those contributors for one fabulous evening. Zenshin Florence Caplow, the books editor, is a Soto Zen priest in the Suzuki Roshi lineage and has been practicing Vipassana and Zen for twenty-five years. Co-editor Susan Moon has been practicing in the Soto Zen tradition for 35 years, and is a lay teacher with the Everyday Zen Sangha. Contributor Rev. Daijaku Kinst Ph.D, is a co-founder and guiding teacher at Capitola's Ocean Gate Zen Center, and is a core faculty member and director of the Buddhist Chaplaincy program at the Institute of Buddhist Studies, an affiliate school of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. Contributor Shinshu Roberts, another co-founder and guiding teacher at Capitola's Ocean Gate Zen Center, was trained in Japan and holds the appointment of Kokusaifukyoshi (International Teacher) with the Soto Zen School in Japan.