[2] Rand's extensive work with Tara Tulku Rinpoche led to her active support of the Tibetan Buddhist community in diaspora and to a recognition of the deep connections between Vajrayana and Soto Zen insights and practices.

She also formed and studied an extensive collection of Tibetan Buddhist art, as well as taking instruction over many years in Noh chanting and Japanese tea ceremony with Yaeko Nakamura Sensei.

[3] In the 1980s Rand established a place for Buddhist practice in Marin County, California with a focus on Zen, and taught there for many years; she named it Goat-in-the-Road, which derived from her efforts to save young goats destined for the local Greek community auction at Easter time.

In 2005 she moved Goat-in-the-Road (also known as Bodaiji, Buddha Mind Temple) to Philo, Mendocino County, where she continued to teach and to lead retreats.Throughout her career, she hosted visiting teachers of different schools, and she taught widely throughout the United States, offering lectures, workshops, conferences, and retreats.

She also taught and counseled extensively both professional and volunteer caregivers working with the terminally ill. Rand brought a Buddhist perspective to reproductive issues by defending a woman's right to choose while teaching that abortion's moral gravity makes it an option of last resort.