Archives: Authors
Craig Kaufman
Craig Kaufman is on the Khyentse Foundation Education Programs committee and has managed statewide political campaigns. He founded an educational non-profit in New York and has been active in writing and editorial work, notably regarding innovative social action methods.
Gregory Gibbs
Gregory Gibbs of Oregon Buddhist Temple in Portland has been a former Catholic and loner Zennist for 15 years and is an avid fan of Honda Minako, Ian Hunter, and His Eminence, Go Monshu Koshin Ohtani.
Rick Heller
Rick Heller is the editor of the online magazine <em>The New Humanism</em>, a publication of the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard University. He is also a facilitator of the Humanist Contemplative Group in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has participated in practice groups at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center.
Tamam Kahn
Tamam Kahn is author of <em>Untold: A History of the Wives of Prophet Muhammad</em> (Monkfish Books), a journal editor, practitioner of Sufism and a long-time student of the Buddhist teacher Tai Situ Rinpoche.
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn Sucitto is a Theravada monk, born in Britain and ordained in Thailand in 1976. He served as abbot of Cittaviveka (Chithurst Buddhist Monastery) in England from 1992 to 2014, and remains based there as a teacher. He co-edits dhamma moon, a website featuring “practice-notes on the joys, struggles, humour and pain of the journey towards truth and freedom.” His latest book, <em>Buddha-Nature, Human Nature </em>is about our environment and the ways in which Buddhism can affect it.
Stan Goldberg
Stan Goldberg is a professor emeritus of communicative disorders at San Francisco State University and the author of six books. His latest is <em>Lessons for the Living: Stories of Forgiveness, Gratitude, and Courage at the End of Life</em>.
David B. Gray
David B. Gray is an associate professor of religious studies at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California. He specializes in the study of Tibetan Buddhist traditions.
Misha Becker
Misha Becker is a linguistics professor, poet, hospice volunteer, and mom of two. These days her meditation practice involves cultivating patience with both her two-year-old and herself.
Paul Ekman
Paul Ekman is a renowned expert in emotional skills and nonverbal communication, pioneering techniques to unmask deception and other mental states through facial recognition. He collaborated with the Dalai Lama on the 2008 book, <em>Emotional Awareness</em>. In 2009, TIME magazine named him one of its top 100 influential people.
Mark Coleman
Mark Coleman is a mindfulness meditation teacher and nature guide. His newest book is <em>From Suffering to Peace: The True Promise of Mindfulness</em>.
James Baraz
James Baraz is a founding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center and leads retreats, workshops, and classes around the U.S. and abroad. With Shoshana Alexander, he is the author of <em>Awakening Joy: 10 Steps That Will Put You on the Road to Real Happiness</em> (Bantam). Since 2003, he has also led an online course at www.awakeningjoy.info
Peter Levott
Poet, translator, and Zen teacher Peter Levott is the author of Within Within and twelve other books of poetry and prose, and is a recipient of the Lannan Foundation Award in Poetry. He leads the Salt Spring Zen Circle in British Columbia, where he resides.
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.
James Gritz
James Gritz is a longtime Tibetan Buddhist practitioner and artist whose work is deeply rooted in the Dharma. A student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche since 1973, he has continued his path under the guidance of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche and Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche and other teachers. His Buddhist-inspired projects include a five-month documentation of the Nangchen Nuns in eastern Tibet with Tsoknyi Rinpoche where he was the still photographer with Victress Hitchcock who directed the documentary Blessings: The Tsoknyi Nangchen Nuns of Tibet. James spent five months in Tibet—resulting in a limited-edition photo book, and exhibitions—as well as co-directing Never Give Up, a documentary on the 17th Karmapa filmed during the Kagyu Monlam in India. He also served as the official photographer for the Karmapa’s first U.S. and European tours and is the author of Pith Instructions from My Teachers (Sumeru Press, 2024), a collection of teachings received over decades of practice. Visit jamesgritz.com to learn more about his work.
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.