Dhamma Wheel memorial thread

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This topic is for posting a memorial to each known DW member who has passed away.

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username: jcsuperstar

James Brand
(1976 - 2010)

From Alaska, USA

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username: Individual

Will Young
(1983-2011)
From: USA

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Sally Gross

(1953 - 2014)
From: South Africa

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Bhikkhu Samahita

(1960-2019)
From: Denmark (but also lived many years in a hermitage in Sri Lanka)

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username: sattva

Louise

(1954?-2019)
From: Maryland, USA

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Sally Gross

(1944? - 2014)

b. 1953

The Journey from Selwyn to Sally – A three-part article and interview from the Natal Witness, covering her life from early ANC activism up to her joining the Quakers after the then Cardinal Ratzinger had expelled her from the Dominican Order.

The life of Sally Gross challenges many of our preconceptions about who we are, especially in a society that accepts only two genders, male and female. Born Jewish and classified male at birth, Gross later became a Christian and a Dominican priest. But Sally Gross is not transsexual, she is intersexed. This is the first of three articles in which she tells her story.

https://isna.org/pdf/gross1.pdf

This, the second of three articles, explores Sally Gross's search for an identity within the context of the Catholic priesthood which resulted in the 'biggest trauma' of her life.

https://isna.org/pdf/gross2.pdf

For Sally Gross, coming back to the country of her birth where she was still classified as male was no simple matter. This final article in a series of three looks at what happened.

https://isna.org/pdf/gross3.pdf

Sally Gross, Founder and Director of Intersex South Africa

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Thanks, corrected my post above.

And if anyone has other information or photos to add, please do so or email me and I can upload it. And if anyone has correct birth dates, please let me know too.

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Ven. Appicchato (Phra Maprow)

Eric Ingram (aka Ven Appicchato, Pra Maprow)

(1946-2018)
From: California, USA (but lived many years as a monk in Thailand)

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Dylan Jewel
(1996-2020)
memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=13022
San Francisco, California
facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/dylanmjewel

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cjmacie

Chris Macie (1943-2019)

his full bio: viewtopic.php?p=390148#p390148

Topic specifically for him: viewtopic.php?f=27&t=41341

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Nonin Chowaney
(1941-2022)

From facebook:
Nonin was a Zen Buddhist priest. He was master teacher, gardener, poet and calligrapher. He was masterful at accessing vast intellectual and emotional reaches, and then letting them go. He was both austere and imposing, and deeply vulnerable and compassionate. Irascible one moment, and dancing joyfully in my living room the next. Life dealt him a series of blows that could have crushed him. But they didn’t. Simple things brought him great joy: walking his dog, jazz music, his family, the neighbor kids, good whiskey, babies, watching sports, and talking with friends over coffee.

He has a wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonin_Chowaney

Topic specifically for him:
viewtopic.php?p=687335#p687335

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Ayya Dipa (1955-2014)

Ayya Dipa was a bhikkhuni who resided at Mahapajapati Monastery in Southern California.

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Adam Fisher, long time poster on Buddhist forums going back to e-sangha. Username Genkaku
memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=147

Blog: https://genkaku-again.blogspot.com/2009/

(birth date? - passed away in 2021)

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Gregory Wonderwheel (1949-2023) another long time poster on Buddhist forums, mostly Zen and Mahayana forums. He only had 9 posts here, but he was here briefly.

memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=212

He legally changed his last name to Wonderwheel. See his full bio here:
https://www.dharmawheel.net/viewtopic.p ... 1c#p676902