Archives: Authors

Jesse Hiltz

Sarah Schneider

Sarah Schneider has been practicing Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism since 1999 when she met her Root Lama, Garchen Rinpoche. She lived at the Garchen Institute for five years, practicing in many retreats, including three-year retreat. After leaving three-year retreat, Sarah lived in Nepal for two years studying and translating Tibetan language. She currently lives in Santa Monica, CA, where she works as a Tibetan translator.

Zachary Bremmer

Zachary Bremmer writes about the intersection of Buddhist meditation, philosophy, and the happiness of everyday life.

Yael Shy

Yael Shy is the Senior Director of the NYU Global Spiritual Life Center, Founder and Director of MindfulNYU, Director of the Of Many Institute for Multifaith Leadership, as well as the author of the forthcoming book, <em>What Now? Meditation for Your Twenties and Beyond</em>.

Gesshin Greenwood

Gesshin Greenwood is the author of <em>Bow First, Ask Questions Later</em> and <em>Just Enough: Vegan Recipes and Stories from Japan’s Buddhist Temples</em>.

Lama Tsomo

Lama Tsomo is an American Buddhist teacher in the Namchak lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. She is the author of <em>Why Is the Dalai Lama Always Smiling?</em>

Van Jones

Van Jones is a lawyer, CNN political commentator, and founder of The Dream Corps. His new book is <em>Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together</em>.

Bob Doppelt

Bob Doppelt facilitates the Dharma teachers Climate Collaborative and directs the Resource Innovation Group. He is the author of <i>From Me to We: The Five Transformational Commitments Required to Rescue the Planet, Your Organization, and Your Life.</i>

Brandon Dean Lamson

Frank Berliner

Dosho Port

Dosho Port is the founder and guiding teacher of <i>Vine of Obstacles: Online Support for Zen Training</i> and the author of the blog Wild Fox Zen.

Patrick Brady

Patrick Brady is an inmate at the California State Prison in Corcoran.

Joan Tollifson

Joan Tollifson was on staff at Toni Packer’s springwater Center for five years. She is the author of <i>Bare Bones Meditation</i> and <i>Nothing to Grasp</i>, and is currently writing a book about aging and dying.

Jim Willems

Jim Willems has been a Buddhist practitioner for more than forty years and a student of Joseph Goldstein since 1992. He teaches vipassana and jhana meditation at the east Bay meditation Center in Oakland, California.

Maureen Connor

Maureen Connor (Samten Wangmo) was ordained as a lay teacher in the Tibetan Karma Kagyu tradition in 2004.

Ann Shaftel

Ann Shaftel is a preservation consultant and conservator specializing in Buddhist art. Her clients include museums, governments, universities, and Buddhist monasteries around the world.

Geoffrey Samuel

Geoffrey Samuel is a professor at Cardiff University in Wales, and a research fellow at the University of Sydney, specializing in anthropology and religion in Tibetan societies. He is the author of Introducing Tibetan Buddhism and a co-editor of Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia, both published by Routledge.

Gregory Shepherd

Gregory Shepherd is an associate professor of music at Kauai Community College in Hawaii. He has been a student of Zen in Hawaii and Japan since the early 1970s.

Ajahn Viradhammo

Ajahn Viradhammo is abbot of Tisarana Buddhist Monastery near Perth, Ontario, which is in the Thai Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah and Ajahn Sumedho. He took bhikkhu ordination in 1974 with Ajahn Chah.

Eve Rosenthal

Eve Rosenthal is a Shambhala acharya, or senior teacher, who became a close friend and dharma sister to Lisa Hilliard after moving to Nova Scotia in 1990.