Archives: Authors
Marc Lesser
Marc Lesser is CEO of ZBA Associates LLC, a company providing executive coaching, seminar, and facilitation services. He is the founder and former CEO of Brush Dance, a publisher of greeting cards, calendars and gift items, with spiritual themes and artwork. Marc was a resident of the San Francisco Zen Center for 10 years, was director of Tassajara, and is a Zen priest. He is the author of Less: Accomplishing More By Doing Less, and Z.B.A. Zen of Business Administration: How Zen Practice Can Transform Your Work and Your Life.
Kerri Power
Kerri Power is currently doing her MFA in creative writing through the University of British Columbia. She enjoys photography, hiking, and canoeing.
Llundup Damcho
Llundup Damcho (Dianna Finnegan) was ordained as a getsulma, or novice nun, in 1999. She studied Buddhist philosophy for seven years with Geshe Lhundup Sopa, her preceptor, and produced the English translation of the Sanghata Sutra. In 2009, she received her doctorate from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, working on Sanskrit and Tibetan narratives about Buddha’s female disciples. She is a student of the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa, and lives in north India in the Dharmadatta Nuns’ Community (www.nunscommunity.net), which was founded by and for Western women and is guided by the Karmapa.
Janet Gyatso
Janet Gyatso is the Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies at Harvard University’s Divinity School, and author of Apparitions of the Self and Women in Tibet. She is past president of the International Association of Tibetan Studies and the current co-chair of the Buddhism Section of the American Academy of Religion.
Sam van Schaik
Sam van Schaik is a researcher and scholar working at the British Library with the early Tibetan manuscripts from the sealed cave at Dunhuang. He is author of <em>Approaching the Great Perfection</em> and coeditor of <em>Esoteric Buddhism</em> at Dunhuang with Matthew Kapstein (Brill, 2010).
Nancy Gibbs
A finalist at the 2008 San Francisco Writers Conference in Nonfiction and Memoir, Nancy Gibbs is currently writing a collection of stories which features "Bye, Frog" about one of her more unusual teachers. She spent a couple of decades teaching secondary English and supervising student publications in Colorado. Aside from writing, she hikes the Colorado back country and creates mosaics.
Dawn Downey
Dawn Downey’s work has been published by The Christian Science Monitor, Skirt! Magazine, The Best Times, Kansas City Voices, Alzheimer's Anthology of Unconditional Love, TheAmericanBuddhistCenter.org, and The Topeka Metro News. Because she’s a writer, she has a favorite word: redundant.
Genine Lentine
Genine Lentine is a poet and author of the chapbooks <i>Mr. Worthington’s Beautiful Experiments on Splashes and Poses: An Essay Drawn from the Model</i>. She teaches an ongoing Sunday writing workshop at the San Francisco Zen Center, where she was recently artist-in-residence.
Linda Heuman
Linda Heuman is a freelance journalist and photographer based in Providence, Rhode Island. She has been a student of Christine Skarda’s since 1995 and is the webmaster for Skarda's online seminar.
Francisca Cho
Francisca Cho is an associate professor of Buddhist studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Her current book project looks at how Buddhist views of language can be applied to resolve the conflict between religion and science in contemporary Western culture.
Alexa Mergen
Alexa Mergen's poems and essays have appeared in <i>The Pedestal Magazine, The Redwood Coast Review, High Country News, Parabola, </i>and other journals. She's worked as a school teacher, teaching artist, and humane educator.
Hope Martin
Martin has taught the Alexander Technique since 1987 and has a studio in New York City. She’s a teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition.
Anam Thubten
Anam Thubten grew up in Tibet and at an early age began to practice in the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He is the founder and spiritual advisor of Dharmata Foundation, and the author of <i>The Magic of Awareness</i> and <i>No Self, No Problem.</i>