The first free women: original poems inspired by the early buddhist nuns - matty weingast

MATTY WEINGAST is co-editor of Awake at the Bedside and former editor of the Insight Journal at Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.

With almost two decades of medita­tion experience, Matty completed much of the work on The First Free Women while staying at Aloka Vihara Forest Monas­tery in northern California.