Archives: Authors
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>.
Andy Hoover
Andy Hoover is the director of communications at the ACLU of Pennsylvania and an ordained Buddhist priest at the Blue Mountain Lotus Society in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The views expressed in this piece are his own.
Beverly Sanford
Beverly Sanford is a teacher with the Princeton Buddhist Meditation Group. She has been ordained to teach in the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism by Anam Thubten Rinpoche.
Ani Trime
Ven. Bhikshuni Karma Trime Lhamo (1928-2016) was an American-born Tibetan Buddhist nun and the director of the Princeton Buddhist Meditation Group. Ani Trime originally studied with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. She also had a broad appreciation of various other Buddhist traditions, having studied with Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche, the Venerable Cham Kusho, and other Tibetan teachers, as well as Theravada teacher Ayya Khema. She was known and loved for her down-to-earth, straightforward Dharma talks, which placed great emphasis on meditation practice and everyday experience, and for her sense of humor and warmth.
Lama Surya Das
Lama Surya Das is the best-selling author of <em>Awakening the Buddha Within</em> and a leading voice in Western Buddhism. The founder of the Dzogchen Center in Cambridge, Mass., his latest book is a children’s book called <em>The Yeti and the Jolly Lama</em>. Tibet's Dalai Lama calls him "the Western Lama."
David Nichtern
David Nichtern is a senior Buddhist teacher, author, meditation guide and Emmy award winning composer and musician. His newest book is <a href="http://davidnichtern.com/creativity-spirituality-making-a-buck/">Creativity, Spirituality, and Making a Buck</a>.