Archives: Authors
Gyokei Yokoyama
Gyokei Yokoyama is a Soto Zen priest with the Long Beach Buddhist Church, a nondenominational community in Long Beach, California.
Nikki Mirghafori
Nikki Mirghafori is an empowered teacher in the Theravada tradition and an AI scientist. She serves as a stewarding teacher and on the board of directors at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and as a teacher at the Insight Meditation Center. She is of Persian heritage and is an advocate for wisdom and compassion in daily life, as well as for benevolent AI in our zeitgeist.
Koshin Paley Ellison
Koshin Paley Ellison is an author, Zen teacher, Jungian psychotherapist, leader in contemplative care, and co-founder of an educational non-profit called the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. His latest book is Untangled: Walking the Eightfold Path to Clarity, Courage, and Compassion.
Matthew Kohut
Matthew Kohut, co-author of Compelling People, has worked as a writer, teacher, and musician for twenty-five years.
Anita Feng
Anita Feng is the guiding teacher for the Blue Heron Zen Community in Seattle. She’s also the author of <em>Sid</em> and a sculptor of clay buddhas.
Jozen Tamori Gibson
Jozen Tamori Gibson began formal meditation practice and study in 2004. He is the Director of Community and Youth Engagement and sangha facilitator with the Brooklyn Zen Center (BZC), and Program Director for the Awake Youth Project. A participant in the 2017-2021 IMS Teacher Training Program, Jozen highlights all of his teachers especially his mother, Akimi, and root Dharma teacher, Pamela Weiss.
Chimyo Atkinson
Chimyo Atkinson received Dharma transmission under Rev. Teijo Munnich in 2015. She received her monastic training in Japan and the US. She currently serves as Head of Practice at Great Tree Zen Women’s Temple in Alexander, North Carolina.
Dawa Tarchin Phillips
Dawa Tarchin Phillips is Founder/CEO of Empowerment Holdings and co-founder of the Mindful Leadership Online Training Conference. He is a mindfulness and meditation expert, author, entrepreneur, spiritual teacher, researcher and educator. He is the acting President of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association, and founder of the Mindful Leadership Tribe.
Kamilah Majied
Kamilah Majied, Ph.D. is a mental health clinician, educator and internationally engaged consultant on building inclusivity and equity using meditative practices. Dr. Majied is a social work faculty member at California State University, Monterey Bay. To learn more visit <a href="http://www.KamilahMajied.com" rel="noopener">KamilahMajied.com</a>
Shoda Douglas Kanai, Shonin
Shoda Douglas Kanai, Shonin is the head priest of the Nichiren Buddhist Kannon Temple of Nevada, a branch temple of Nichiren Shu. He is currently the only American priest that has completed the 100 Days Acetic Training twice.
Alison Wearing
Alison Wearing is a Canadian writer and performer. Her new book, <em>Moments of Glad Grace</em>, will be published the fall of 2019.
Susan MacLeod
Susan MacLeod is a Nova Scotian artist working on a humorous graphic memoir. You can follow her on Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/humans_of_saint_vincents/" rel="noopener">@humans_of_saint_vincents</a>.
Taitetsu Unno
Taitetsu Unno (1929-2014) was a scholar and teacher in the Shin Buddhist tradition, as well as the Jill Ker Conway Professor Emeritus of Religion at Smith College. One of the leading authorities in the United States on Shin Buddhism, his work as a translator has made many important Buddhist texts available to the English-speaking world.
Alan Watts
Alan Watts was a British-American philosopher who interpreted and popularised Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. He authored more than 25 books in his lifetime, including <em>The Way of Zen</em> and <em>Become What You Are</em>.
Laura Johnson
Laura Johnson, PhD, is a cultural geography lecturer at Humboldt State University, a yoga teacher, and a freelance writer. She and her husband live in Eureka, CA, where they are building a permaculture homestead, operating a cottage food business, and working toward personal and collective healing.
Eihei Dogen
<a href="/buddhism/dogen/">Eihei Dogen</a> (1200–1253) was the founder of the Soto Zen school in Japan. His masterwork, the 95-chapter <em>Treasury of the True Dharma Eye</em> (Shobogenzo), is considered one of the seminal works in Buddhist literature.
Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil
Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil is an award-winning reporter based in Southern California and a graduate of Harvard Divinity School.
Doyeon Park
Rev. Doyeon Park is a Kyomunim, literally meaning one who devotes oneself to teach Buddha dharma in the Won Buddhist tradition. She has served as a minister of the Manhattan Won Buddhist temple and a representative of Won Buddhism at the United Nations since 2008. She is the Buddhist Religious Life Adviser at Columbia University and the Buddhist chaplain at New York University.