Rebecca Li

Dr. Rebecca Li, a Dharma heir in the lineage of Chan Master Sheng Yen, is the founder and guiding teacher of Chan Dharma Community.  She began practicing with Master Sheng Yen in the mid-1990s and served as his translator after 1999. After his passing in 2009, she trained with John Crook and Simon Child, two of Master Sheng Yen’s lay Dharma heirs, from the U.K. She received full Dharma transmission from Simon Child in 2016. She teaches meditation and Dharma classes, gives public lectures, and leads retreats in North America and Europe. Her talks and writings can be found at www.rebeccali.org, Tricycle and Lion’s Roar. Rebecca is also a sociology professor and lives with her husband in New Jersey. She is the author of Allow Joy into Our Hearts: Chan Practice in Uncertain Times, and her book Illumination: A Guide to the Buddhist Method of No-Method was published in 2023 by Shambhala Publications.