Travelogue: Gil Fronsdal and the Insight Meditation Center

Gil Fronsdal talks about studying in Buddhist monasteries from Big Sur to Bangkok, founding the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, and creating an integrated Buddhist world culture through the practice of vipassana meditation.

Gil Fronsdal is the founding teacher and a co-guiding teacher at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California and the Insight Retreat Center in Santa Cruz, California. He has been teaching since 1990. Gil was ordained as a Soto Zen priest at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1982 and at Theravada monk in Burma in 1985. Gil also has a PhD in Buddhist Studies from Stanford University.

Interview by Leah Chase