Friday 19 September 2025
Brigid Lowry has been a Buddhist for over forty years. She spent six years at Wat Buddha Dharma as part of the lay community, helping to run retreats for many teachers, including Ayya Khema, Phra Khantipalo and Joseph Goldstein. She has been a Zen student for many years and is also a Vipassana practitioner. Brigid has an MA in Creative Writing and is the author of many prize-winning YA books. Her adult titles are Still Life With Teapot: On Zen, Writing and Creativity and A Year of Loving Kindness to Myself and Other Essays. The later was chosen by Apple books to be Best Book of the Month in April 2021. Her new book, A Time of Living Graciously: Essays on Ageing, will be published by Fremantle Press in February. Brigid believes in op shops, coloured pencils and floral frocks, and in fostering joy and creativity in herself and others.
Please note – our Friday Night Speakers during Rains (11 July – 7 Oct 2025) are NOT live streamed, so please come along in person to enjoy the talk!
Significance of the Rains Retreat for Theravada Buddhism: During the Rains Retreat, we have guest speakers on Friday nights as our monastics stay at their monasteries and hermitages rather than coming to Dhammaloka to teach. Find out more about the Rains Retreat here: https://bswa.org/rains-retreat-speakers-2025/