Sandy Boucher

Sandy Boucher is an American writer, Buddhist, and feminist. She lives in Oakland, California.

Life and career Boucher received a master's degree from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. Her degree was in the history and phenomenology of religion. For a time, she was a Buddhist nun in Sri Lanka. along with publishing articles in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Sun, and Writer's Digest. In 1975, Boucher was a fellow at MacDowell Colony, an artists' colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Opening the Lotus: A Woman's Guide to Buddhism (1997) Discovering Kwan Yin: Buddhist Goddess of Compassion (1999) Hidden Spring: A Buddhist Woman Confronts Cancer (2000) Dancing in the Dharma: The Life and Teachings of Ruth Denison (2005)