Archives: Authors

Austin Mabry

Austin Mabry is a former Buddhist monk in the Plum Village Tradition. He currently lives and practices at Morning Sun Mindfulness Center in rural New Hampshire.

Jarboe

Jarboe is a singer-songwriter and keyboardist who came to prominence as a member of the New York City–based band Swans.

Michael Imperioli

Michael Imperioli is an actor known for his role as Christopher Moltisanti on The Sopranos. He’s also a movie director, musician, and novelist.

Franz Alt, born in 1938, studied theology in Freiburg and Heidelberg. In his long-term career as a journalist, he has repeatedly made his mark as a critical spirit who questions current interpretation of environmental and peace policy issues.

Dzung X. Vo

Dr. Dzung X. Vo is a pediatrician at British Columbia Children’s Hospital and the author of The Mindful Teen: Powerful Skills to Help You Handle Stress One Moment at a Time.

Dan Zigmond

Dan Zigmond is a writer, technologist, and Zen teacher. His most recent book <a href="http://amzn.to/2VYawga" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Buddha's Office: The Ancient Art of Waking Up While Working Well</a> was published in 2019. You can find more of his teachings at <a href="https://www.shmonk.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">www.shmonk.com</a>.

Livia Kohn

Livia Kohnis professor emeritus in the Department of Religion at Boston University and a specialist in Daoism. Her latest book, Full Potential: Daoist Wisdom Meets Western Psychology (Three Pines Press), was published last year.

Choying Khandro

Chöying Khandro received the transmissions of both the Ganden and Machik Dakini Ear-Whispered Chöd lineages from her root teacher, the Ninth Khalkha Jetsün Dampa. Based in Springfield, Oregon, she is the founder and spiritual leader of Dakini’s Whisper, an international, online community whose mission is to integrate ancient wisdom into the individual and shared journey of dedicated, contemporary practitioners around the world. She has an MA in oriental philosophy from Waseda University in Japan and an MA in Buddhist studies from the University of Michigan and is also trained in body-oriented disciplines

Valerie Brown

Valerie Brown is a dharma teacher in the Plum Village tradition founded by Thich Nhat Hanh. She’s completing her forthcoming book: Braver Things: Fearless Living for Broken-Open, Pulled Apart, and Turned Upside Down Times.

Harry Um

Harry Um is a therapist and social worker in Los Angeles, California. He practices regularly at the Dharma Zen Center and with the Dharma Homies.

Satya Robyn

Satya Robyn is a Pure Land priest at Amida Mandala Buddhist temple in the UK and a psychotherapist in private practice.

Jody Hojin Kimmel

Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei, is the Abbot of the Zen Center of NYC-Fire Lotus Temple in Brooklyn and the training director for the Mountains and Rivers Order at Zen Mountain Monastery, where she has been in full-time residential training for over thirty years. She ordained as a priest with John Daido Loori and received dharma transmission in 2017 from Geoffrey Shugen Arnold. She is also an artist and teaches Art Practices as a means to study the self and open oneself up to the creative process.

Vaishali Mamgain

Dr. Vaishali Mamgain received her PhD in Economics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. She is currently an Associate Professor of Economics and the Director of the Bertha Crosley Ball Center for Compassion at the University of Southern Maine. A pioneer in the field of contemplative education she facilitates Compassion Training workshops in the US and abroad. When COVID-19 forced an online transition, she was teaching Economics and Happiness – a contemplative class she had developed during a fellowship with the American Council of Learned Societies. Currently, she serves on the Board of Directors of The Center for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education and the Courage of Care Coalition. She practices in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition under the tutelage of Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche and from 2014-2017 she did a 3-year meditation retreat at Samten Ling Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado.

Linda González

Linda González is a life coach and the author of the memoir The Cost of Our Lives.

Rachel Paige King

Rachel Paige King is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, Slate, Salon, and many other publications.

Karen Greenspan

Karen Greenspan is a New York City-based dance journalist and student of the Buddhadharma (thanks to a dance). A frequent contributor to Fjord Review, Ballet Review, Natural History, Tricycle Magazine, and Buddhistdoor Global, among other publications, She’s the author of Footfalls from the Land of Happiness: A Journey into the Dances of Bhutan. For more information, visit <a href="https://karengreenspan.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karengreenspan.com</a>

Sarah Shaw

DR. SARAH SHAW is a faculty member and tutor at the University of Oxford and a visiting contemplative mentor at Brown University. She has taught and published numerous works on the history and practices of Buddhism, including The Art of Listening: A Guide to the Early Teachings of Buddhism and Mindfulness: Where It Comes From and What It Means.

Juhn Ahn

Juhn Ahn is associate professor of Buddhist and Korean Studies and author of Buddhas and Ancestors: Religion and Wealth in Fourteenth-Century Korea (University of Washington Press, 2018). His present research interests include the history of the Koryŏ economy, reading habits in Song dynasty Chan Buddhism, and the cultural history of weather and wealth during the Chosŏn Period.

Paula Arai

Paula Arai the author of Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Women’s Rituals, Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns, and Painting Enlightenment. She is a professor of religious studies at Louisiana State University, where she also serves on the faculties of women's and gender studies, Asian studies, and Chinese culture and commerce.

Patrick Dowd

Patrick Dowd is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the culture of Tibetan language within the world of Tibetan Buddhism. He has spent several years studying, researching, and collaboratively working with Tibetan communities in Tibet, Nepal and India.