“Zen master Glassman is co-author, with actor Jeff Bridges, of New York Times bestseller The Dude and the Zen Master (Penguin). He founded Greyston Mandala, a network of for-profits and non-profits working to improve the lives of individuals and the larger inner-city community of Yonkers, New York. He also founded Zen Peacemakers for Zen practitioners dedicated to peace and social justice. He has hosted Bearing Witness retreats at the old sites of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland for 18 years, and this year will conduct one in Rwanda to bear witness to the genocide that took place there 20 years ago. Most recently…”