Archives: Authors
C. Pierce Salguero
Pierce Salguero is a transdisciplinary scholar of health humanities who is fascinated by historical and contemporary intersections between Buddhism, medicine, and cross-cultural exchange. He has a Ph.D. in History of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2010), and teaches Asian history, medicine, and religion at Penn State University’s Abington College, located near Philadelphia. He is the author of Buddhish: A Guide to the 20 Most Important Ideas for the Curious and Skeptical and A Global History of Buddhism & Medicine, both published in 2022.
Seth Zuihō Segall
Seth Zuihō Segall, Ph.D. is a Zen Buddhist priest and clinical psychologist who teaches at Pamsula Zen of Westchester and the New York Insight Meditation Center, is a contributing editor for <em>Tricycle: The Buddhist Review</em>, and the science writer for the Mindfulness Research Monthly. Dr. Segall’s publications include <em>The House We Live In: Virtue, Wisdom, and Pluralism</em> (2023), <em>Buddhism and Human Flourishing</em> (2020), <em>Living Zen: A Practical Guide of a Balanced Existence</em> (2020), <em>Encountering Buddhism: Western Psychology and Buddhist Teachings</em> (2003) and recent chapters in <em>The Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Meditation</em> (2022), and the <em>Handbook of Positive Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality</em> (2022). His blog, <a href="https://www.existentialbuddhist.com/2023/01/youre-going-to-carry-that-weight/">The Existential Buddhist</a>, contains commentary on Buddhist philosophy, ethics, history, art, meditation, and social engagement
Richard Kahn
Richard Kahn, PhD, MS, RD, is a Dharma Teacher in the Kwan Um School of Zen and teaches meditation in two synagogues in NYC. He writes about meditation and dairy foods. He has a nutrition practice specializing in infants and young children.
Sister Peace
Sister Peace is a nun in the Plum Village tradition. Recently, her service and practice have been focused on the children jailed in the Shelby County Juvenile Detention Center in Memphis.
Kathy Yep
Kathy Yep is a practitioner in the Plum Village tradition and a qi gong teacher/student in the Wild Goose tradition of Yan Mei Jun lineage. She is also longtime resident of Monterey Park and a tenured full professor of Asian American Studies at Pitzer College of the Claremont Colleges. For more information: <a href="http://www.kathyyep.com">www.kathyyep.com</a>
Ravi Chandra
Ravi Chandra is a blogger for Psychology Today. His documentary The Bandaged Place: From AIDS to Covid and Racial Justice won Best Film at the 2021 Cannes Independent Film Festival.
Som Pourfarzaneh
Som Pourfarzaneh is an assistant professor of Islamic and Digital Media Studies at Starr King School for the Ministry.
Keisha Bush
Keisha Bush is the author of <em>No Heaven for Good Boys</em>. She’s currently pursuing a master’s degree in theology at Harvard Divinity School.
Reiko Ohnuma
Reiko Ohnuma is the author of Giving Away the Body in Indian Buddhist Literature and Unfortunate Destiny: Animals in the Indian Buddhist Imagination.
Dr. g
Dr. g (Claudelle R. Glasgow), Psy.D., SEP, NEDA Proficient (doc/we) is a multi-hyphenate serving as healing artist, writer, and educator. Dr. g’s work has been supported by fellowships and craft shops through Hugo House, VONA, The Watering Hole, Hurston/Wright, Anaphora, and RWW. Their chapbook the Devils that raised Us was longlisted at Frontier Poetry in 2022. Dr. g's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Killens Review, Black Lawrence Press, Moko: Caribbean Arts & Letters, Rigorous Magazine, & Obsidian Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. With nearly 20 years as a healing artist, their work is emergent & grounded in a radical existential-somatic approach, which works with the power of the here & now, somatics, creativity & liberation. Doc supports the global majority in addressing grief, liminal space, and intergenerational and ancestral traumas. Stay informed of Dr. g’s offerings, sign up for their newsletter at <a href="https://www.claudelleglasgow.com">https://www.claudelleglasgow.com</a> and follow on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/garudagrin/">@garudagrin</a>.
Brian Lesage
Brian Lesage has practiced Buddhist meditation since 1988 and has taught meditation since 2000. He has studied in the Zen, <em>Theravada</em> and Tibetan schools of Buddhism. He was ordained in the <em>Rinzai</em> Zen tradition in 1996. His training in <em>Vipassana</em> Meditation includes doing extended meditation retreats in Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, and India as well as numerous retreats in the U.S. He leads retreats and teaches meditation courses nationwide. You can also visit his website for more information at: <a title="https://liberatingawareness.com/" href="https://liberatingawareness.com/" rel="noopener">liberatingawareness.com</a>
Judy Yushin Nakatomi
Judy Yushin Nakatomi (she/we) is a mother, writer, and community cultivator. She practices in her root, ancestral tradition, Jodo Shinshu, and is a member of the Plum Village Order of Interbeing.
Wes Nisker
Wes “Scoop” Nisker is an award-winning broadcast journalist and commentator, Buddhist meditation teacher, a bestselling author, and a standup Dharma comic who has been described in the New York Times as “masterful at using humor to lighten the enlightenment journey.” He was the founder and co-editor of the Buddhist journal “Inquiring Mind,” and for the past 40 years has been leading retreats and workshops in Buddhist Insight Meditation and philosophy at venues internationally. Two of his <a href="https://wesnisker.com/books/">classic books</a> are being reissued in new editions: <a href="https://www.innertraditions.com/books/being-nature/"><em>Being Nature: A Down-to-Earth Guide to the Four Foundations of Mindfulness</em></a> (Inner Traditions, November 2022) and <em>The Big Bang, the Buddha, and the Baby Boom: The Spiritual Experiments of My Generation</em> (Monkfish Book Publishing Co., June 2023).
Cinthia Font
Cinthia Font is a translator and interpreter, fluent in seven languages: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, English, Catalan, and Tibetan. She teaches Tibetan language in various university programs and does oral and written translation for dharma communities around the world, primarily for the Spanish-speaking students of Her Eminence Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche. To learn more about Cinthia and her work visit <a href="http://drayang.com/">drayang.com</a>
Santiago Santai Jiménez
Santiago Santai Jiménez is a Colombian Zen monk and co-founder of the Centro Integral Colombia. Santiago is also a multi-instrumentalist musician, music producer, and industrial engineer. Santiago's approach to dharma integrates the gradual and sudden approaches to awakening, combining the systematic development of the mind found in some Buddhist traditions, with the immediate realization that is characteristic of some forms of Zen. He has worked in different countries with individuals and groups ranging from indigenous tribes to multinational executives, sometimes in the same setting.
Nagapriya
Nagapriya is an ordained Dharmachari in the Triratna Buddhist Community. Originally from the UK, in 2013 he moved to Mexico, where he helped found the Centro Budista de Cuernavaca. He is cofounder and director of Editorial Dharmamegha, a small publishing venture dedicated to sharing Buddhist teachings in the Spanish-speaking world. He also works as part of a team training men from Latin America for ordination into the Triratna Buddhist Order.
Rev. Marvin Harada
Rev. Marvin Harada serves as Bishop of the Buddhist Churches of America at the Jodo Shinshu Center in Berkeley.
Lama Karma Chotso
Lama Karma Chötso has studied and practiced Tibetan Buddhism for forty years, including completing a three-year retreat, studying Tibetan language in India and Nepal, and touring Tibet with Khenpo Tsultrim Gyatso Rinpoche. She is based in Miami, where she founded Open Awareness Buddhist Center twenty-five years ago, and also teaches in Peru, where she and her students have built a Tibetan stupa in the Amazon Basin.
Sozan Miglioli
Originally from Argentina, Sozan Miglioli is a Zen priest and teacher in the Shunryu Suzuki Roshi lineage. Sozan served as the president of the San Francisco Zen Center for several years and is the founder and Head Teacher of Zen Without Borders.