Lawlor, LizRiley, DonBowman, Nathan2015-08-132015-08-132015https://hdl.handle.net/1808/18326Oral histories created by University of Kansas students, staff and faculty as part of the Religion in Kansas Project are archived at http://hdl.handle.net/1808/12524 in KU ScholarWorks, the digital repository of the University of Kansas.Oral history interview with Liz Lawlor and Don Riley of Southwind Sangha, an affiliate of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association, in Wichita, KS. This interview was conducted on June 20, 2015, at Panera Bread near the group’s primary location. The interview includes discussion of Southwind Sangha’s formation and relationship to the Soto Zen Buddhist Association, each interviewee’s own story of becoming Buddhist, their thoughts on meditation, and their role in the local community. This interview was conducted for the Religion in Kansas Project as part of a summer fieldwork internship funded by the Friends of the Department of Religious Studies.en-USAll oral histories in the Religion in Kansas Project are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 Unported License.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Southwind Sangha (Wichita, Kan.)MeditationBuddhism -- KansasZenInterfaith communitiesLiz Lawlor and Don Riley Oral HistoryRecording, oralopenAccess