Archives: Authors
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.
Suzi Wizowaty
Suzi Wizowaty lives in Burlington, Vermont, with her partner of thirty years, a cat and a dog. She writes novels for adults and children and teaches part-time at St. Michael's College and at Champlain College in Burlington, Vt. She also leads book discussions for the Vermont Humanities Council in public libraries, hospitals, prisons—wherever readers assemble to talk about books and ideas. In 2008, she was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives.
Jerry Kolber
Jerry Kolber has been writing, producing and directing television, film, and theater in NYC since 1989. He lives on the Lower East Side and has been meditating since he joined the IDP in 2007. His site is at <a href="http://www.jerrykolber.com/" rel="noopener">www.JerryKolber.com </a>and he is also the author of <a href="http://www.threedollardinner.com./" rel="noopener">www.ThreeDollarDinner.com</a>. He also writes for the IDP's blog, One City. Click <a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/onecity/author/jerry-kolber-1/2009/07/index.html" rel="noopener">here</a> to read his posts, including his latest, "Top 10 Reasons to Start Meditating Today."