Martine Batchelor

France

Martine Batchelor

France

Martine Batchelor was born in 1953. She ordained as a Buddhist nun in Korea in 1975 in the Jogye lineage. She studied Jogye Zen Buddhism for ten years at Songgwangsa with Master Kusan Sunim. Batchelor became Kusan Sunim’s interpreter on speaking tours in the United States and Europe from 1981 to 1985, the year she left monastic life.

She married Stephen Batchelor and returned to Europe. Martine Batchelor became a member of the Buddhist group, the Sharpham North Community, and then served as a teacher at the Buddhist community of Gaia House, both in Devon, England. She also led a Buddhist studies program at Sharpham College in Totnes, Devon, England.

Martine Batchelor works mostly in the United Kingdom and occasionally in the United States. In addition to writing books, she leads meditation groups with her husband that incorporate aspects of Zen, Vipassanā, and Tibetan Buddhism. Martine Batchelor also blogs frequently for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

Martine Batchelor speaks English, Korean, French and can read Chinese characters.

Her books include:

• What is this? Ancient questions for modern minds
• Spirit of the Buddha
• Let Go: A Buddhist Guide to Breaking Free of Habits
• Women in Korean Zen
• The Path of Compassion: The Bodhisattva Precepts
• Women on the Buddhist Path
• with Stephen Batchelor, Meditation for Life
• Zen
• Principles of Zen
• with Gill Farrer-Halls, Walking on Lotus Flowers: Buddhist Women Living,

Loving and Meditating

• with Kerry Brown, Buddhism and Ecology