Archives: Authors

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 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.

Marnie Crawford Samuelson

Marnie Crawford Samuelson is a documentary photographer, multimedia producer, and storyteller. Her photographs have appeared in national magazines and in two books: Lasting Words with Claire Willis and The Wild Braid with poets Stanley Kunitz and Genine Lentine. She has directed and photographed several short films. She lives in Wellfleet, Massachusetts and Berkeley, California.

Claire B. Willis

Claire B. Willis is a clinical social worker who has worked in the field of oncology and bereavement for more than twenty years. She is a cofounder of the Boston nonprofit Facing Cancer Together and regularly leads bereavement, end-of-life, support, and therapeutic writing groups. As a lay Buddhist chaplain, she focuses on contemplative practices for end-of-life care. She maintains a private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts.

David Richo

David Richo is a psychotherapist and the author of How to Be an Adult in Relationships and Triggers: How We Can Stop Reacting and Start Healing.

Benjamin Mui Pumphrey

Benjamin Mui Pumphrey is a psychiatrist and Zen teacher in Augusta County, Virginia.

Annabelle Zinser

Annabelle Zinser received dharma teacher transmission from both Ruth Denison and Thich Nhat Hanh. Thich Nhat Hanh bequeathed to Zinser his urban practice center in Berlin. She has a PhD in history and politics.

Linda Galijan

Formerly a clinical psychologist, Linda Galijan is currently president of San Francisco Zen Center..

Roshi Wendy Egyoku Nakao

Roshi Wendy Egyoku Nakao is head teacher at the Zen Center of Los Angeles.

Phil Stanley

Phil Stanley is the chair of the Department of Wisdom Traditions at Naropa University and Dean of Academic Affairs of Nitartha Institute. A scholar of Tibetan, he is the cofounder of the Union Catalog of Buddhist Texts, which is currently working to place multiple editions of the Theravada Pali canon online. He is also an instructor, alongside fellow Naropa professors Amelia Hall and Judith Simmer-Brown, of The Three Turnings of the Wheel, an in-depth online course presented by Lion’s Roar.

Sayadaw U Tejaniya

Sayadaw U Tejaniya began his Buddhist training as a teenager with the famous Burmese monk Shwe Oo Min Sayadaw, eventually ordaining at age thirty-six. Today, he teaches at Shwe Oo Min Dhamma Sukha Forest Meditation Center in Yangon, Myanmar. He is known for his distinctive approach to meditation, which deemphasizes form and places heavy emphasis on paying close attention to greed, aversion, and delusion. His most recent book, Relax & Be Aware, was published by Shambhala in December.

Avikrita Vajra Sakya

Avikrita Vajra Sakya is a lama in the Sakya school and author of Wake Up to What Matters: A Guide to Tibetan Buddhism for the Next Generation.

Bhante Sujato

Bhante Sujato is an Australian Theravada Buddhist monk and cofounder of the website SuttaCentral, which provides free translations of early Buddhist teachings alongside the texts in their original languages. He lives in Sydney at Lokanta Vihara, the Monastery at the End of the World, which he established in 2019 with his student

Kwan Haeng Sunim

Kwan Haeng Sunim is a monk in the Kwan Um School and head dharma teacher of Providence Zen Center in Cumberland, Rhode Island.

Jyoshin Clay

Jyoshin Clay is a Soto Zen priest serving Dharma Rain Zen Center and Wy’East Zen Center, both in Oregon.