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Madeline Ko-i Bastis
Madeline Ko-i Bastis is a Zen priest, the first Buddhist to become a board-certified hospital chaplain, and the founder and director of the Peaceful Dwelling Project. The Peaceful Dwelling Project is an educational organization that seeks to improve the quality of living for people with life-challenging illness and their caregivers by promoting the use of meditation for spiritual, emotional, and physical healing. She is a Soto Zen priest in the White Plum lineage and was ordained by Peter Muryo Matthiessen Roshi in 1993.
Bastis has worked at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, New York University Medical Center, and in the AIDS Unit at Nassau County Medical Center on Long Island, offering pastoral care and leading retreats and meditation groups for people with AIDS, cancer patients, professional caregivers, people in detox, residential psychiatric patients, battered women, prisoners, teen substance abusers, emotionally disadvantaged adults, and Alzheimer's patients, as well as for the local community. Bastis is the author of Peaceful Dwelling: Meditations for Healing and Living and Heart of Forgiveness: A Practical Path to Healing.
She has published many articles about meditation and healing and has reported on her work at several conferences, including: the College of Chaplains National Conferences in 1997, 2001, and 2003; the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education Eastern Region Conference; the 1998 Buddhism in America Conference; the 1999 Association for Death Education and Counseling Conference; and the 2001 Asian Cancer Therapies Conference. |
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