Archives: Authors
John Harvey Negru
John Harvey Negru (Karma Yönten Gyatso) is founder and president at <a href="http://sumeru-books.com">The Sumeru Press</a>, Canada’s leading independent Buddhist book publisher. He also manages <a href="http://www.canadianbuddhism.info">canadianbuddhism.info</a>, a directory of more than 600 Canadian Buddhist organizations, and has been involved in a wide variety of Buddhist community development projects over the years.
Richard Davidson
Neuroscientist Richard Davidson is founder of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he has pioneered the study of how meditation practices affect the brain. He was recently elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Hondo Lobley
Hondo Lobley grew up in Northern California, currently lives in the East Bay and practices in the Jodo Shinshu tradition of his family. His grandparents and great grandparents maintained their practice through their incarceration at Amache during WWII. Hondo likes cats and martial arts.
Debra Flics
Debra Flics is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. She teaches at Downtown New York Meditation Community and has served on the Teachers Council at New York Insight Meditation Center.
Jeff Bridges
Although many people think he is The Dude, Jeff Bridges is actually a multitalented actor, singer, photographer, and activist. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for <em>Crazy Heart</em>. Read Andrea Miller's Lion's Roar magazine feature about Bridges and his friendship with Zen teacher Bernie Glassman, "<a href="https://www.lionsroar.com/the-dude-and-the-zen-master-may-2013/">The Dude and the Zen Master</a>."
Eli Brown-Stevenson
Eli Brown-Stevenson is the director of work practice at San Francisco Zen Center.
Allen Weiss
Allen Weiss is director of Mindful USC at the University of Southern California and a senior teacher at InsightLA.
Ayya Yeshe
Ayya Yeshe is a Mahayana nun and head of Bodhicitta Dakini Monastery in Australia and Bodhicitta Foundation, which serves the poor in the slums of central India.
Michel Bitbol
Michel Bitbol is a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. He holds a medical degree, a doctorate in physics, and an Habilitation in philosophy. After his start in physics, he turned to philosophy, editing texts by Erwin Schrödinger and formulating a neo-Kantian philosophy of quantum mechanics. His work, done in collaboration with Francisco Varela, has drawn a parallel between Buddhist dependent arising and nonsupervenient relations in quantum physics.
Sara Lewis
Sara Lewis brings her training as both a psychotherapist and an anthropologist of religion and medicine to Naropa University, where she teaches contemplative psychotherapy and Buddhist psychology. Her work (including her book <em>Spacious Minds: Trauma and Resilience in Tibetan Buddhism</em>, which will be published next year), explores “how individuals and communities cope with the vicissitudes of life — not in spite of suffering, but through it, and because of it.”
Ann Gleig
Ann Gleig is an associate professor of religion and cultural studies at the University of Central Florida. She is the author of American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity and editor, with Scott Mitchell, of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of American Buddhism. She is collaborating with Amy Langenberg on Abuse, Sex, and the Sangha, a book-length study of sexual abuse in American convert Buddhism, to be published by Yale University Press.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was an American writer, known for fantasy and science fiction.
Khin Mai Aung
Khin Mai Aung has written numerous pieces in Lion’s Roar and other publications about civil rights in Myanmar, and has practiced American civil rights, immigrant rights, and education law for more than 20 years.
Ram Dass
Born Richard Alpert, Ram Dass is the founder of the Love Serve Remember Project and co-founder of the Seva Foundation and the Prison Ashram Project. He is the author of the worldwide spiritual classic Be Here Now (Crown, 1971), and many other books. His most recent book is Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart (Sounds True, 2013/2014). Visit ramdass.org
Paul Garrigan
For more from Paul Garrigan, including information about his book, <a href="http://paulgarrigan.com/dead-drunk/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Dead Drunk</a> – a memoir of his time at Thamkrabok and the story of how he ended up there, visit him <a href="http://paulgarrigan.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">on the web</a>.
Russell Delman
Russell Delman, founder of <a href="http://www.russelldelman.com/" rel="noopener">The Embodied Life</a>™ School has been practicing Zen and studying somatic psychology since 1970. "The Embodied Life"™ focuses on the deep integration of meditation, movement, and inner inquiry.
Doug Shear
Doug Shear is a writer, playwright and stand-up comedian. He is author of the memoir: American Karma - Twilight of the Marijuana Gods, the novel Rhubarb Culture, and the recently performed play Saint Peter at the Gate. He has been interested in Buddhist philosophy all his life, but has no real hope of achieving enlightenment. His website is http://dougshear.net. Anyone is welcome to email him at dougshearaol.com.