Archives: Authors
Nadine Levy
Nadine Levy (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer at the Nan Tien Institute, a Buddhist Higher Education Institute in Australia, where she leads graduate programs in the areas of social health and applied mindfulness. Her research areas include critical mindfulness studies, compassion in education, and the socio-cultural aspects of Buddhism.
Catherine Pawasarat
Catherine Pawasarat teaches spiritual awakening via PlanetDharma.com and in conscious community at Clear Sky Retreat Center in British Columbia, Canada.
Estefania Duque
Estefania Duque has a degree in Modern Languages and Interculturality from De La Salle Bajío University. She grew up in the warmth of the Buddhist community of Casa Tibet México and is currently learning Tibetan with the aspiration of translating the Dharma directly from Tibetan into Spanish.
Gustavo Montoya
Gustavo Montoya es originario de Medellín, Colombia. Practicante del Budismo Zen y docente en la Fundación Universitaria Bellas Artes de Medellín y el Politécnico JIC. trabajando temas relacionados con la comunicación audiovisual, pensamiento crítico de los medios y cibercultura. Montoya también ha trabajado como realizador audiovisual y fotógrafo en proyectos relacionados con la comunicación para el cambio social y el proceso de paz en Colombia.
Carolyn Campbell
Carolyn Campbell is a published writer, exhibited photographer and sought-after lecturer. She is the author of the bestselling book, <em>City of Immortals: Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris</em>.
Paul MacGowan
Paul MacGowan’s interest in meditation and Buddhism started as a teenager in the 1970s and his work in video production began in the mid-eighties. He met Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche in 2010 and was inspired by him to produce the film <em>A Joyful Mind</em> (2016), which gives an overview of Mingyur Rinpoche’s teachings on meditation. When Mingyur Rinpoche returned from his four-and-a-half-year wandering retreat in 2015, he told wonderful and inspiring stories that became the basis of the film <em>Wandering . . . But Not Lost</em>. Since its release in 2020, the film has won numerous awards, including Best Documentary and Best Biography Film.
Joe DaRocha
Joe DaRocha has his master’s in social work and has worked with traumatized families and children for over twenty-five years.
Anlor Davin
Anlor Davin is a Soto Zen priest. Her memoir, Being Seen, was published in 2016.
Pete Grella
Pete Grella is a Buddhist meditation teacher based in Los Angeles. He hosts a Neurodiverse Affinity Group with Insight LA called InTune.
Louise Woodford
Louise Woodford recently wrote an essay that was published in the book Autism and Buddhist Practice: How Buddhism Can Help Autistic Adults Cultivate Wellbeing, edited by Chris Jarrell.
Venerable Guan Cheng
Venerable Guan Cheng is the abbot of the International Buddhist Temple in British Columbia, Canada. He has published various books in Chinese, including <em>Commentary on the Heart Sutra</em> and <em>Commentary on the Diamond Sutra</em>.
Noelle Oxenhandler
Noelle Oxenhandler began Buddhist practice in 1970. Her essays have appeared in many national and literary journals, and she recently retired from teaching creative nonfiction at Sonoma State University in California.
Katherine Jamieson
Katherine Jamieson is a writer based in Western Massachusetts who corresponds with prisoners around the country as part of the National Buddhist Prison Sangha network. She has taught Contemplative Writing through Zen Mountain Monastery and the Nalanda Institute. <a href="http://www.katherinejamieson.com/">www.katherinejamieson.com</a>
Gary Donnelly
GARY DONNELLY is an academic advisor at the University of Manchester, and lectures in Indic Religious Traditions at Liverpool Hope University. He holds a PhD in Indian Philosophy, specializing in Theravada, Madhyamaka, Yogacara, and Vedanta traditions.
Lopen Karma Phuntsho
Lopen Karma Phuntsho completed his full monastic training before joining Oxford to pursue a DPhil in Oriental Studies. He has worked at Cambridge University, CNRS (Paris), the University of Virginia, and is a writer for the Buddha-Nature project of Tsadra Foundation. He teaches Buddhism and Bhutan studies and has written many books and articles. He is also the founder of the Loden Foundation, which promotes education and Buddhist entrepreneurship, and documents Buddhist texts and cultural traditions.
Marcus Perman
Marcus Perman is the executive director of Tsadra Foundation and organizer of the Translation & Transmission Conference Series. He has studied Buddhism and the Tibetan language in Tibet, India, Nepal, and at Naropa University and Nitartha Institute and now lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Heidi Nevin
Heidi Nevin is a Tibetan translator and practitioner in the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism. She grew up in Maryland and met the dharma as a teenager living in China. She apprenticed with Kyabje Chatral Rinpoche for six years and has devoted herself to dharma translation since 2003. She has published several works under the auspices of Tsadra Foundation and has recently joined the in-house team at Khyentse Vision Project to help translate the works of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo. Heidi lives in Oregon with her husband and two teenage children.
Qalvy Grainzvolt
Qalvy Grainzvolt is an ordained Shinnyo priest, a uniformed police chaplain, and a licensed mental health clinician.
Kokoyo Henkel
Since 1990, Kokoyo Henkel has been practicing in residence at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, where he is currently tanto (head of practice), No Abode Hermitage in Mill Valley, Bukkokuji Monastery in Japan, and Santa Cruz Zen Center. He was ordained as a Zen priest in 1994 by Tenshin Anderson Roshi and received dharma transmission from him in 2010.
Kevin Buckelew
Kevin Buckelew is assistant professor of religious studies at Northwestern University.