Archives: Authors

Lori Deschene

Lori Deschene is the author of Tiny Buddha and founder of the popular website tinybuddha.com.

Sister Chan Khong

Sister Chan Khong has been Thich Nhat Hanh’s closest collaborator for more than fifty years. She’s the author of Deep Relaxation (Parallax Press).

Laura Randeles was raised in Houston, Texas. In 2008 she became a yoga teacher and has taught various forms of yoga to anyone willing to show up to her classes. She now lives in Washington, DC and works as a contract attorney by day and yoga teacher by night.

Michael J. Sweet

Michael J. Sweet is the author of Mission to Tibet: The Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Account of Father Ippolito Desideri and a researcher in Madison, Wisconsin, focusing on the early modern Catholic missions to Tibet.

Julianne Victoria

Julianne Victoria is a writer and massage therapist with an interest in Buddhism and the healing arts. She lives in Seattle.

Kittisaro

Kittisaro was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford before going to Thailand in 1976 and ordaining with Ajahn Chah. He lived as a monk in the Forest Tradition for fifteen years and has practiced Chan and Pure Land Buddhism for the past thirty years.

Anne Carolyn Klein

Anne Carolyn Klein (Lama Rigzin Drolma) is cofounder of Dawn Mountain Tibetan Temple, Community Center, and Research Institute in Houston, Texas. She is also a professor of religious studies at Houston’s Rice University and the author of several books including, most recently, Being Human and a Buddha Two: Longchenpa’s Sevenfold Mind Training, and, as translator, Strand of Jewels, a distillation of Dzogchen teachings by Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche.

Genjo Marinello Osho

Genjo Marinello Osho is the abbot of Chobo-ji, a temple in the Rinzai-Hakuin lineage of Zen in Seattle, Washington. He studied with the founding abbot of Chobo-Ji for twenty years, and later trained with Eido Shimano Roshi, who declared him a dharma heir in 2008. He is also a psychotherapist in private practice.

Gerry Hadden

Gerry Hadden was National Public Radio’s reporter for Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean from 2000 to 2004. His memoir of his NPR years, Never the Hope Itself: Love and Ghosts in Latin America and Haiti, was published in 2011. Now he reports for PRI’s The World Out of Barcelona. Hadden describes himself as a longtime faltering student of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, with whom he took refuge too many years ago to count.

Ed Halliwell

Tanya Davis

Tanya Davis is a poet and musician living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and is the city’s poet laureate.

Daniel Ladinsky

Shyalpa Tenzin Rinpoche

Shyalpa Tenzin Rinpoche is the spiritual guide of Shyalpa Monastery in Kathmandu, the founder of the Tibetan Refugee Children’s Fund, and the head of Rangrig Yeshe, a nonprofit that organizes teachings and retreats throughout the United States.

Elaine Smookler

Elaine Smookler is a comedic performer and playwright, and the director of communications for the Centre for Mindfulness Studies in Toronto.

Subha Srinivasan

Subha Srinivasan says her spiritual practice has been the core of her life for the past few years. Subha lives in New Hampshire with her husband, Abhi, and daughter, Anjali. You can read more from her at her <a href="https://shub50.wordpress.com/">blog</a>.

Charlotte Bell

Charlotte Bell began practicing yoga in 1982. Following a 1989 trip to Pune, India, she received teacher certification from B. K. S. Iyengar. A lifelong musician, she plays oboe and English horn with the Salt Lake Symphony and performs with Scherzando Winds, blue haiku and Red Rock Rondo. She lives in Salt Lake City. For more information about her yoga classes and workshops, visit www.charlottebellyoga.com.

David Dae An Rynick, Roshi

David Dae An Rynick, Roshi is Abbott of the Boundless Way Zen Temple, author of This Truth Never Fails: A Zen Memoir in Four Parts, and a Life and Leadership Coach. He lives, practices and teaches with his wife, Melissa Myozen Blacker, Roshi in Worcester, MA.

Brian Otto Kimmel

Brian works with individuals and groups seeking an integrative, embodied approach to contemplative practice in daily life. He has published several articles and is in the process of writing a book on mindfulness and healing from sexual abuse. He recently submitted for publication a collection of wisdom poems on being single and queer. He earned his BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Naropa University in 2012 with a concentration in Contemplative Psychology, Religion and Performing Arts. His final thesis was titled: Healing Gender Wounds through Dancing Like Men. Brian is a non-monastic member of Thich Nhat Hanh’s Order of Interbeing since 2006. He regularly facilitates retreats, offers speakerships, mentors, and guides practice communities in his tradition and beyond. As a performance artist, he is developing an intimate knowing through body-mind research.

Brandon Rennels

Brandon graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in business and psychology, and spent his first two years after graduation working as a management consultant in Dubai. He worked on strategy & operations projects across the Middle East, Europe and Africa, developing a skill-set for how to effectively implement new concepts across diverse cultures. Brandon then relocated to the US to continue working as a Senior Consultant out of Chicago, IL. While he enjoyed the problem-solving nature of the work, he felt he should be serving a different client; it was people, not corporations, that he wanted to see grow. Recently, Brandon has been applying his business background to the mindfulness field by supporting two education initiatives commissioned by Thich Nhat Hanh. He lives in Escondido, California. You can read more of his writings at www.brandonrennels.com.

Scott Mitchell

Scott Mitchell is the Rev. Yoshitaka Tamai Professor of Jodo Shinshu Buddhist Studies at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley and the author of Buddhism in America: Global Religion, Local Context.