Sandy Boucher

Boucher received a master's degree from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. Her degree was in the history and phenomenology of religion.{{Cite web|title=Sandy Boucher|url=https://www.macdowellcolony.org/artists/sandy-boucher|website=MacDowell Colony|access-date=May 11, 2020}} For a time, she was a Buddhist nun in Sri Lanka.

Boucher has been a contributor to the publications Tricycle: The Buddhist Review and Lion's Roar,{{Cite web|title=Sandy Boucher|url=https://tricycle.org/author/sandy-boucher/|website=Tricycle: The Buddhist Review|access-date=May 11, 2020}}{{Cite web|title=About Sandy Boucher|url=https://www.lionsroar.com/author/sandy-boucher/|website=Lion's Roar|access-date=May 11, 2020}} along with publishing articles in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Sun, and Writer's Digest.{{Cite news|last=Sandy|first=Boucher|date=November 25, 2007|title=Calling Dr. Lee|work=SFGate|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle|url=https://www.sfgate.com/magazine/article/Calling-Dr-Lee-3300620.php|access-date=May 11, 2020}}{{Cite news|last=Boucher|first=Sandy|date=November 2000|title=We're Family In Here|work=The Sun|url=https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/299/were-family-in-here|access-date=May 11, 2020}}{{Cite magazine|last=Boucher|first=Sandy|date=April 1995|title=Are You Holding Back?|url=https://cbab9841-72dc-4c47-89a4-b00cd42272d7.filesusr.com/ugd/a8e0e8_0744cf030ad2412690f55adc65a9542e.pdf|magazine=Writer's Digest|pages=30–33|access-date=May 11, 2020}}

In 1975 Boucher was a fellow at MacDowell Colony, an artists' colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire.

• Assaults & Rituals: Stories (1975)
• The Notebooks of Leni Clare, and Other Short Stories (The Crossing Press feminist series) (1982)
• Heartwomen: An Urban Feminist's Odyssey Home (1982)
• Turning the Wheel: American Women Creating the New Buddhism (1993){{Cite journal|last=Woodhouse|first=Mark|date=October 1, 199|title=Turning the Wheel: American Women Creating the New Buddhism|journal=Library Journal|volume=124|issue=16|pages=60}}
• Opening the Lotus: A Woman's Guide to Buddhism (1997){{Cite journal|last=Bagby|first=Jeanne|date=May 15, 1997|title=Opening the Lotus: A Woman's Guide to Buddhism|journal=Library Journal|volume=122|issue=9|pages=80}}{{Cite journal|last=Cantwell|first=Cathy|date=Summer 2001|title=Book Review: "the Mandala: Sacred Circle in Tibetan Buddhism," by Martin Brauen, Martin Willson; "Opening the Lotus: A Woman's Guide to Buddhism," by Sandy Boucher|journal=Tibet Journal|volume=26|issue=2|pages=85–87}}{{Cite journal|last=Diamond|first=Sara|date=October 1997|title=Review: Practice Makes Imperfect|journal=Women's Review of Books|volume=15|issue=1|pages=17–18|doi=10.2307/4022759|jstor=4022759}}{{Cite news|date=April 28, 1997|title=Opening the Lotus CL|work=Publishers Weekly|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8070-7308-7|access-date=May 11, 2020}}{{Cite news|last1=Ann Brussat|first1=Frederic|last2=Ann Brussat|first2=Mary|title=Opening the Lotus: A Woman's Guide to Buddhism|work=Spirituality & Practice|url=https://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/book-reviews/view/1036/opening-the-lotus|access-date=May 11, 2020}}{{Cite magazine|last=Hammond|first=Holly|date=September–October 1997|title=Briefly Noted Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AOoDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA122|magazine=Yoga Journal|page=122|access-date=May 11, 2020}}
• Discovering Kwan Yin: Buddhist Goddess of Compassion (1999){{Cite magazine|last=Catalfo|first=Phil|date=July–August 1999|title=Briefly Noted Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EuoDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA107|magazine=Yoga Journal|pages=106–107|access-date=May 11, 2020}}{{Cite journal|last=Graham|first=Christian|date=May 1, 1999|title=Discovering Kwan Yin: Buddhist Goddess of Compassion|journal=Library Journal|volume=124|issue=8|pages=86}}
• Hidden Spring: A Buddhist Woman Confronts Cancer (2000){{Cite journal|last=Wickens|first=Andy|date=October 1, 2000|title=Hidden Spring: A Buddhist Woman Confronts Cancer|journal=Library Journal|volume=125|issue=16|pages=135–136}}{{Cite journal|last=Sawyers|first=June|date=September 1, 2000|title=Hidden Spring: A Buddhist Woman Confronts Cancer|journal=Booklist|volume=97|issue=1|pages=34}}{{Cite news|last=Wiess|first=Jana|date=September 11, 2000|title=Hidden Spring: A Buddhist Woman Confronts Cancer. (Review) (Brief Article)|volume=247|page=85|work=Publishers Weekly|issue=37}}{{Cite news|last1=Ann Brussat|first1=Frederic|last2=Ann Brussat|first2=Mary|title=Hidden Spring: A Buddhist Woman Confronts Cancer|work=Spirituality & Practice|url=https://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/book-reviews/view/2391/hidden-spring|access-date=May 11, 2020}}
• Dancing in the Dharma: The Life and Teachings of Ruth Denison (2005){{Cite news|last=Scott|first=Whitney|date=March 1, 2005|title=Dancing in the Dharma: The Life and Teachings of Ruth Denison|work=Booklist|url=https://www.booklistonline.com/Dancing-in-the-Dharma-The-Life-and-Teachings-of-Ruth-Denison-Sandy-Boucher/pid=1175052|access-date=May 11, 2020}}

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• [https://www.sandyboucher.info/ Official website]

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