Janet V. Rock

Janet V. Rock is co-director of the Dhammabucha Rocksprings Meditation Retreat Sanctuary, and co-author of Stumbling Across Buddha, Life, and A Buddhist Fairy Tale.

Her 40 years of meditation experience include two stopovers in Thailand where she practiced in the remote Northeast forests as an ordained Theravada Buddhist nun under Ajahn Chah, Ajahn Lee and Ajahn Luen. She was also a postulant at Shasta Abbey, a Zen Buddhist monastery in northern California under Roshi Kennett, and a Theravada Buddhist anagarika at Amaravati Monastery in the UK with Ajahn Sumedho.

She practiced with Bhante Gunaratana at the Bhavana Society in West Virginia, the Korean Master Sueng Sahn Sunim, and the Tibetan Master Trungpa Rinpoche in Boulder, Colorado. She has also practiced at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts and the Zen Center in San Francisco.