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Rev. Harry Gyokyo Bridge<\/strong> spent various parts of his youth in both Tokyo and the Boston area. He encountered Buddhism while in college, and although he had dreams of becoming a professional musician, he instead found his way into the Buddhist ministry. He received Masters Degrees from both the\u00a0Institute of Buddhist Studies\u00a0in Berkeley, CA and\u00a0Ryukoku University\u00a0in Kyoto, Japan. Rev. Bridge served as the resident minister of the Buddhist Church of Lodi for two and a half years, and was assigned to the Buddhist Church of Oakland in January of 2009.<\/p>\n

He can be found online at Gyoko<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, and SoundCloud<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Scott Mitchell<\/strong> is the Dean of Students and Faculty Affairs and holds the Yoshitaka Tamai Professorial Chair at the Institute of Buddhist Studies. He teaches and writes about Buddhism in the West, Buddhist modernism, Pure Land Buddhism, and Buddhism and media.<\/p>\n

He can be found online at djbuddha.org<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, Academia.edu<\/a>, and Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Past DharmaRealm guests<\/a> include:<\/strong><\/p>\n