Archives: Authors
Tanya McGinnity
Tanya McGinnity describes herself as a “Gen X punk rock Buddhist girl who is a student of Nalandabodhi, honing her skills as a meditation teacher. Blogger, tweeter, culture freaker who is also interested in comic books, video games, movies and pugs." Visit her on the web at FullContactEnlightenment.com.
Adeu Rinpoche
Adeu Rinpoche (1931–2007) was a master of the Drukpa Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism who discovered hidden texts (termas) and wrote extensive teachings and instructions. He lived at Tsechu Monastery in Nanchen, Eastern Tibet, but spent twenty-three years in prison after the Chinese invasion in the 1950s. This article is from a new book of his teachings, Freedom in Bondage.
Mark Rivett
Mark Rivett is a Family Psychotherapist and has been following various Zen traditions for thirty years. He lives in Cardiff, South Wales, UK.
Brian Haycock
Brian Haycock is a writer and former taxi driver who lives in Austin, Texas. His first book, <i>Dharma Road: A Short Cab Ride to Self Discovery</i>, was published by Hampton Roads. Haycock currently works for a non-profit and secretly misses driving a cab.
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, originally from London, was one of the first Westerners to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun. She is the subject of the biography <i>Cave in the Snow</i>, which describes her twelve-year retreat in the Himalayas, and is the founder of Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery in Tashi Jong, India, where she currently resides.
Roberta Werdinger
Roberta Werdinger is a poet, freelance writer, and editor in Ukiah, California. She lived at Tassajara Mountain Center and Green Gulch Farm Zen Center for ten years, and was ordained by Tenshin Reb Anderson in 2000.
Rose Taylor
Rose Taylor Goldfield is a second-generation Buddhist teacher with the Wisdom Sun practice and Study community in San Francisco.
Laura Jomon Martin
Laura Jomon Martin is a licensed clinical social worker and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction instructor in Portland, Oregon. She is a student of Jan Chozen Bays Roshi and Zen teacher Hogen Bays at the Zen Community of Oregon.
Holly Stocking
Holly Stocking is a retired journalist and educator living in Bloomington, Indiana. She has been a student of Tibetan Buddhism since 1998. She is deeply grateful to all her teachers for their kind advice.
Lisa Napoli
Lisa Napoli is a journalist whose last staff job was on the public radio show Marketplace. An early chronicler of the dawn of the World Wide Web as a columnist at the New York Times CyberTimes, she has also been the Internet correspondent at MSNBC. She began her career at CNN, worked in local news in North Carolina, and has directed several documentaries about Southern culture. Visit her online at LisaNapoli.com.
Jake Adelstein
Jake Adelstein was a reporter for more than a decade with the Yomiuri Shinbun, Japan's largest newspaper. He also served as chief investigator in 2006 and 2007 for a U.S. State Department study on human trafficking in Japan. He is the author of <i>Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan.</i>
Elizabeth Williams
Buddhist psychologist (retired) Elizabeth Williams, Ph.D. supervises new therapists at Rutgers Graduate School of Professional Psychology and practices with Princeton Buddhist Meditation Group (Tibetan) and Cold Mountain Zen in New Jersey.
Ronlyn Domingue
Ronlyn Domingue is the author of the novel <em>The Mercy of Thin Air</em>. Her writing has appeared in New England Review, Clackamas Literary Review, New Delta Review, The Independent, and The Nervous Breakdown, an online literary magazine.
Karen Armstrong
Her first book, Through the Narrow Gate, described the years that Karen Armstrong spent as a Catholic nun. She has since published numerous bestsellers, including A History of God, Islam, and Buddha. Awarded the $10,000 TED Prize in 2008, she advocated drafting a global Charter for Compassion in the spirit of the Golden Rule.