Andrea came to MZMC in 1978 after practicing transcendental meditation for several years. She became a student of Katagiri Roshi and received the lay Buddhist precepts from him in 1980. She heads the Dainin Katagiri Archives and is author of the biographical essay "Ceaseless Effort: The Life of Dainin Katagiri." Andrea has edited two books of Katagiri Roshi’s teachings: Each Moment Is the Universe (2007), and The Light That Shines through Infinity (2017). In 2020 she was recognized as a lay teac...