Archives: Authors
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.
Tamara L. Kaiser
Tamara L. Kaiser, Ph.D., is a clinical therapist and professor emerita at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of <i>Supervisory Relationships</i> and <i>A User’s Guide to Therapy: What to Expect and How You Can Benefit</i>.
Shayne Larango
Shayne Larango is a personal consultant and coach. She practices at the Dallas Meditation Center.
Peter J. Conradi
Peter J. Conradi is the author of <i>Iris Murdoch: A Life</i> (Norton, 2001). His newest book is <i>Going Buddhist: Panic and Emptiness, the Buddha and Me</i> (Short Books), available from Trafalgar Square Publishing.
Lopön Charlotte Z. Rotterdam
Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam is a Senior Teacher at Tara Mandala Buddhist Retreat Center and a long-time student of Lama Tsultrim Allione. She is the Director of the Center for the Advancement of Contemplative Education at Naropa University and an instructor in Naropa’s Core College and Graduate School of Psychology. She co-developed and co-teaches Naropa’s Mindful Compassion Training, a secular program to cultivate compassion in personal, professional and societal contexts. <a href="http://www.skymind.us/" rel="noopener">www.skymind.us</a>
Damien Keown
Damien Keown is professor of Buddhist Ethics at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the author and editor of several books, including Buddhism and Bioethics, and is co-founder of The Journal of Buddhist Ethics. His current research interests include the role of religion in peace and conflict.