Archives: Authors
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>
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>
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.
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.
Catherine Toldi
Catherine Toldi is a Zen priest in the lineage of Suzuki roshi and a longtime member of the Santa Cruz Zen Center. For the past thirty years she has worked as a professional facilitator and trainer, helping groups work collaboratively. She is a coauthor of <i>Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making </i>(Jossey-Bass).
Ayya Dhammadipa
Ayya Dhammadipa has been practicing Buddhism since 1987. She was ordained as Rev. Konin in the Soto Zen tradition in 2007 but moved ten years later to Aloka Vihara, where she took up the Theravada Forest Tradition, a natural extension of her longtime metta practice and study of the Pali suttas. She was recently ordained as a bhikkhuni. She also teaches in Spanish, is an interfaith chaplain, and enjoys being a mother
Brian Arundel
Brian Arundel is a book editor and writer whose fiction and nonfiction essays have appeared in a number of literary journals. His play, Sam, Sara, Etc., is forthcoming from Červená Barva Press.
Frank Ostaseski
Frank Ostaseski is the founder of the Metta institute, cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project, and a coordinating teacher for a new multiyear training program at spirit rock Meditation Center called Heavenly Messengers: awakening through illness, aging, and Death.