Archives: Authors
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.
Justin Lee
Justin Lee is a Burmese American writer with a specific focus on Southeast Asian issues at the intersection of class, identity, religion, and society.
Santiago Aviles Lee
Santiago Avilés is a Colombian doctor and University professor with a master's degree in Traditional Oriental Medicine. He is also a practitioner of Zen Buddhism, studying under Roshi Joan Halifax, currently in training to become a Zen monk. As a physician and Zen practitioner, his practice focuses on accompanying patients in end-of-life stages. Avilés is also working on becoming a bioethics specialist, uniting his work in Neurosciences and the study and practice of mindfulness, contemplative, meditative, and reflective techniques.
Mary Stancavage
Mary Stancavage is a meditation teacher based in the Los Angeles area. She reflects daily on what it means to live with an undefended heart.
S. B. Rodríguez-Plate
S. B. Rodríguez-Plate is executive director of the <a href="https://www.aprilonline.org/">Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life</a> and a professor of religious studies at Hamilton College.
Kevin Griffin
Kevin Griffin is the author of <em>One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Steps</em>. He is a co-founder of the Buddhist Recovery Network.
Chris Ranier
Chris Rainier is a documentary photographer and National Geographic explorer who’s highly respected for his documentation of endangered cultures and traditional languages around the globe. He’s a fellow at the Royal Geographical Society in London.
Emily France
Emily France's debut adult novel, <em>Daughter Dalloway</em>, is a retelling of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Her books for young adults include <em>Zen and Gone</em>.
Charles Johnson
Author, scholar, and political cartoonist Charles Johnson won the National Book Award for Fiction for his novel <em>Middle Passage</em>. He’s coauthor of the new graphic novel <em>The Eightfold Path. </em>
Shyam Selvadurai
Shyam Selvadurai’s new novel, <em>Mansions of the Moon</em>, is a historical novel about the Buddha’s wife, Yasodhara.
Lauren Shufran
Lauren Shufran is the author of <em>The Buddha and the Bard: Where Shakespeare’s Stage Meets Buddhist Scriptures</em>.
Joan Stamm
Joan D. Stamm is the author of <em>The Language of Flowers in the Time of Covid: Finding Solace in Zen, Nature, and Ikebana</em>. She’s a certified teacher in the Saga School of Ikebana.
Atia Sattar
Atia Sattar is Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies and Writing at the University of Southern California. She has been practicing Buddhism for nine years and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two daughters, cat and dog.
Kimmen Sjolander
Kimmen Sjölander is a genome scientist, evolutionary biologist, and professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley. She has three children and lives with her husband in Amsterdam.
Sandra Gonzalez
Sandra was born in Nicaragua and has lived in the United States since 1980. Since 1988, Sandra has focused on meditative work based on the practice of understanding and exploring our true essence through direct observation from the here and now, moment by moment, which is practiced at the Springwater Center in New York. In 2003, Toni Packer named Sandra as one of the people in charge of continuing the work of "Meditative Inquiry", leading retreats and workshops at Springwater Center, in California, Costa Rica, Mexico, Argentina and Nicaragua during the winter. For more information visit <a href="http://www.springwatercenter.org">www.springwatercenter.org</a>