Archives: Authors
Shinshu Roberts
Shinshu Roberts is cofounder of Ocean Gate Zen Center in Santa Cruz, California, and holds the appointment of Kokusaifukyoshi (international teacher) with the Soto Zen School in Japan. A student of Sojun Mel Weitsman, she trained at San Francisco Zen Center for seventeen years. She is the author of <em>Being-Time: A Practitioner’s Guide to Dogen Zenji’s Shobogenzo Uji</em>; her writings also appear in <em>Record of the Hidden Lamp</em> and <em>Receiving the Marrow.</em>
Kritee
Kritee (dharma name Kanko) is a Rinzai Zen priest, climate scientist, and a cofounder of Boundless in Motion, a community in Boulder dedicated to “Zen meditation and strategic activism.” A microbiologist and biogeochemist by training, she is a senior scientist in the Environmental Defense Fund’s Climate Program, through which she helps implement climate-smart farming in India.
Eben Yonnetti
Eben Yonnetti is a PhD student in Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. His research interests include the contemporary transmission of Tibetan Buddhism across East Asia as well as the historical and contemporary relationships between Buddhists and the environment.
Vicki Mackenzie
Vicki Mackenzie is the author of <em>The Revolutionary Life of Freda Bedi: British Feminist, Indian Nationalist, Buddhist Nun</em>.
Kate Inglis
<a href="http://www.kateinglis.com/">Kate Inglis</a> is the award-winning author of <a href="http://www.kateinglis.com/notes-for-the-everlost/"><em>Notes for the Everlost: A Field Guide to Grief</a></em> (Shambhala, September 2018) as well as several children's <a href="http://www.kateinglis.com/books">novels and picture books</a>. She lives on the Atlantic coast in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Richard Salomon
Richard Salomon is the director of the University of Washington Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project and general editor of the Gandharan Buddhist Texts series published by University of Washington Press. Since 1981 he has taught Sanskrit and Buddhist Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at University of Washington, where he is now professor emeritus. His latest book is <em>The Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhara</em>.
Jue Liang
Jue Liang is a doctoral candidate in the department of religious studies at University of Virginia, where she is completing her dissertation, “Conceiving the Mother of Tibet: The Life, Lives, and After- life of the Buddhist Saint Yeshe Tsogyel.” In her research, she reflects on gender dis- courses of Tibetan Buddhist communities, past and present. She is also interested in the theory and practice of translating Tibetan poetry, especially songs of realization and devotion.
Vinny Ferraro
Vinny Ferraro is on the senior faculty of Mindful Schools and has been leading a weekly group in San Francisco for the last fourteen years.
Bri Barnett
Bri Barnett is a twenty-nine-year-old nonbinary trans woman and a mindfulness facilitator who trained through East Bay Meditation Center’s “Practice in Transformative Action” program. They are also the director of development and communications at Trans Lifeline, the largest direct service provider to trans people in North America.
Johnny Edward Dean Jr.
Johnny Edward Dean Jr. is a writer and podcast host of "This is Buddhism my Homie", and a practitioner of Nichiren Shu Buddhism who currently resides in Tucson, AZ.
Aaron Stryker
Aaron Stryker is a twenty-three-year-old recent graduate of Wesleyan University, where he studied philosophy. He is a resident at the Ann Arbor Zen Temple and a founder of Dharma Gates, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making intensive meditation practice accessible to young people.
Ravi Mishra
Ravi Baikei Mishra is a Zen student with Zen Mountain Monastery and the author of the upcoming book, Vow of Aliveness. You can read more of his writing on <a href="https://ravimishra.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ravimishra.substack.com/&source=gmail&ust=1731005556466000&usg=AOvVaw327-IPLVVdC7hI0NQOjqQm">his blog on Substack</a>.
Stephen Batchelor
Stephen Batchelor began his Buddhist studies in 1972 in India, received full ordination as a bhikkhu in 1979, and disrobed in 1985, following three years of training in Korean Seon. The author of <em>Buddhism Without Beliefs</em>, he has become the face of the movement to find a secular, modern approach to the dharma; Bodhi College, which he cofounded in 2015, continues that project. He is married to dharma teacher and author Martine Batchelor, whom he met in Korea, where she trained as a Seon nun for ten years.
Pilar Jennings
Pilar Jennings is a psychoanalyst and a teacher of Tibetan Buddhism in the Sakya lineage. She is a visiting lecturer at Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University, as well as a faculty member of the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science. She teaches widely on integrating Buddhist modalities with a psychoanalytic approach, examining the impact of racism on children, of narcissism on environmental issues, and more. Her book <em>To Heal a Wounded Heart</em> is a psychoanalytic memoir about her entry into work as a Buddhist clinician.
Ven. Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Ven. Karma Lekshe Tsomo is a Buddhist nun and professor of Buddhist studies at the University of San Diego. She is a founder of Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women and director of Jamyang Foundation, which supports educational programs for Buddhist women and girls.
Christiane Wolf
Christiane Wolf is a physician turned mindfulness and dharma teacher and a senior teacher at InsightLA. She’s the co-author of <em>A Clinician’s Guide to Teaching Mindfulness.</em>
Greater Good
“Greater Good” is a collaboration between Lion’s Roar and the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley. You will find more than fifty science-based practices for a meaningful life at <a href="https://ggia.berkeley.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer">ggia.berkeley.edu</a>
Jane McLaughlin-Dobisz
Jane McLaughlin-Dobisz is the guiding teacher of the Cambridge Zen Center and the author of <em>One Hundred Days of Solitude: Losing Myself and Finding Grace on a Zen Retreat</em>.
Kaira Jewel Lingo
Kaira Jewel Lingo is a Dharma teacher with a lifelong interest in spirituality and social justice. Her work continues the Engaged Buddhism developed by Thich Nhat Hanh, and she draws inspiration from her parents’ lives of service and her dad’s work with Martin Luther King, Jr. After living as an ordained nun for 15 years in Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastic community, Kaira Jewel now teaches internationally in the Zen lineage and the Vipassana tradition, as well as in secular mindfulness, at the intersection of racial, climate and social justice with a focus on activists, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, artists, educators, families, and youth. Based in New York, she offers spiritual mentoring to groups and is author of <a href="https://www.parallax.org/product/we-were-made-for-these-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons in Moving through Change, Loss and Disruption</em></a> and co-author of <a href="https://www.parallax.org/product/healing-our-way-home/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Healing Our Way Home: Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy and Liberation</em></a> from Parallax Press. Her teachings and writings can be found at <a href="http://www.kairajewel.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.kairajewel.com</a>.