Sinclair Shinryu Thomson
Village Zendo / Dotokuji
New York, NY
Sinclair Shinryu Thomson received novice priest ordination in 2000 and dharma transmission from Enkyo O’Hara Roshi in December 2009. He has been affiliated with the Village Zendo since 1998. He is an also member of the Phajjsi Qollut Jalsu Zen Center in La Paz, Bolivia, which he helped to co-found in 1992. Shinryu teaches Latin American History at New York University and is the author of books on Native American politics, colonialism, and revolution in the Andes.