Archives: Authors
Brian Joshin Byrnes
Brian Joshin Byrnes is a Zen priest and teacher in the White Plum Lineage and Zen Peacemakers, is the founder of the Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community in Vermont. His practice, which is informed by his long experience working in social nonprofits, specifically in HIV/AIDS and community-based philanthropy, is centered around social action, with a focus on economically marginalized communities.
Candice Tsuei
Manufactured in Taiwan, assembled in Canada, Candice first became interested in Buddhism while traveling in Burma in 2014. In the following year, she met Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche and became his disciple. Candice is currently working for Khyentse Foundation and is studying for her master’s in Buddhist Counseling at Hong Kong University. She also helps manage the daily meditation initiative Dhyana Daily and will be co-hosting the podcast Dharma Radio that is going to launch at the end of this year.
Lin Wang Gordon
Lin Wang Gordon has been leading eco-dharma courses and retreats since 2017. She cohosts the Sacred Earth Sangha at the New York Insight Meditation Center.
Naomi Matlow
Naomi Matlow is a writer and educator specializing in integrating mindfulness and meditation into the lives of those that struggle with busy minds. She recently published her Mindfulness Studies Masters thesis from Lesley University, "A Thought is Just a Thought: A Buddhist Guide to OCD" which is available on Amazon and naomimatlow.com
Singhashri Gazmuri
Singhashri is a queer, Latinx-American Dharma teacher and writer ordained in the Triratna Buddhist Community. She teaches mindfulness and compassion as means to awakening to love, beauty and truth and has committed her life to supporting collective healing and transformation and the joy and freedom found there. She currently lives in London with her partner.
Matthew Fox
Matthew Fox is a spiritual theologian, Episcopal priest, and activist for gender justice and eco-justice. His new book is <em>Essential Writings on Creation Spirituality</em> (Orbis).
Gilbert Gutierrez
Gilbert Gutierrez is one of the five lay dharma heirs of Chan master Sheng Yen. Based in Southern California, he leads Riverside Chan Meditation Group.
Bhikshuni Heng Yi
Bhikshuni Heng Yi is director of the International Institute for the Translation of Buddhist Texts at Dharma Realm Buddhist University. She ordained under the guidance of the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua.
Lina Verchery
Lina Verchery is a scholar of modern Chinese Buddhism who teaches Buddhism and Asian religions at the University of Otago. She’s also an independent filmmaker.
Lucas Matthew Oswalt
Lucas Matthew Oswalt is a practitioner in Yukon, Oklahoma. He works as a labor advocate in his home state and is a member of a sangha in the Plum Village tradition of Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh. He and his wife are parents to a four-month-old little boy.
Sherri Posey
Rev. Jyakuen Sherrilynn Posey is a watchmaker, interfaith minister, and Buddhist chaplain in the Soto Zen tradition.
Sara Jenkins
Sara Jenkins is author of <em>This Side of Nirvana: Memoirs of a Spiritually Challenged Buddhist</em> (Fair Winds Press). This article was originally published in Buddhadharma in March 2003.
Amy Schmidt
Amy Schmidt is a resident teacher at the Insight Meditation Society and author of <em>Knee Deep in Grace: The Extraordinary Life and Teaching of Dipa Ma</em> (Present Perfect Books).
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Hilary North-Ellasante
Hilary North-Ellasante (they/them) takes a “heart-first” stance in supporting social change work. After living and working in K-12 education for over two decades on Lenni/Lenape land in New York City, they now live and work as an independent consultant and facilitator on Wabanaki land in Lewiston, Maine. Their training comes out of an alchemy of both lived and formal learning experiences, all of which have involved developing skills to survive mainstream systems from within a matrix of marginal identities. Their work is rooted in an awareness that systemic oppression impacts all aspects of life, and a commitment to Liberation for all people.
Indigo Ocean
Indigo Ocean is the author of "Being Bliss and Micro Habits for Major Happiness," Bodhi Press. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Integral Counseling Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies, and is the founder of Deep Activism Coaching at DeepActivism.com
Teresa Shimogawa
Teresa Shimogawa is a minister’s assistant at Orange County Buddhist Church. As a veteran civics teacher at a public high school, her day job is teaching students that democracy is a verb. She says her greatest accomplishment is raising three children on her own, choosing joy after the loss of her husband.
Diego Garcia
Diego García has been a student of Tibetan Buddhism since 2003. His main teachers are Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, and Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche, for whom he has served as a translator from English to Spanish. He spends around five months every year in Europe and Asia, receiving teachings and in retreat. Following Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche´s advice, he is a meditation instructor with Casa Tila México.
Pascale F. Engelmajer
Pascale Engelmajer is associate professor of religious studies at Carroll University in Wisconsin and the author of the forthcoming <em>365 Ways to Live Mindfully</em> (John Murray Press).