Book Talk & Signing with Brad Warner March 25, 2011

Brad Warner, an ordained Zen teacher and author of Hardcore Zen, Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate and Sit Down and Shut Up! gives public talks and leads retreats all over the world. He maintains his own blog and was interviewed by CNN in 2008. He's also the writer for the Suicide Girls website, bass player for the hardcore punk rock group 0DFx (aka Zero Defex), director of the film Cleveland's Screaming! and former vice president of the US branch of the company founded by the man who created Godzilla. He went to Japan in 1993 where he began studying the philosophy with Zen Master Gudo Nishijima and became his successor as a Zen teacher of Shikantaza. He has published work in the Buddhist magazines Shambhala Sun, Buddhadharma, and Tricycle.