Archives: Authors
Leslie Davis
Leslie J. Davis is a writer who practices meditation and mindfulness in the Plum Village Tradition of Thích Nhất Hạnh. As a member of the Plum Village Order of Interbeing, her dharma name is True Auspicious Dwelling. She has published essays in <em>The Washington Post</em>, <i>LionsRoar.com</i>, <em>The Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism</em>, <em>Mothering Magazine, The Mindfulness Bell</em>, and<i> Medium.</i> She lives in Ojai, California, with her family. <a href="https://www.lesliejdavis.com/" rel="noopener">www.lesliejdavis.com</a>
Shodo Harada Roshi
Shodo Harada Roshi is the abbot of Sogenji Zen Monastery in Okayama, Japan, and the founder of Tahoma Zen Monastery on Whidbey Island in Washington State, which he visits yearly to lead retreats. He is a dharma heir of Yamada Mumon Roshi (1900–1988), a Zen master in the Rinzai tradition.
Charles Spearin
Charles Spearin is a musician and a founder of Broken Social Scene and Do Make Say Think. He lives in Toronto.
Richard Rosen
Richard Rosen is a contributing editor at <i>Yoga Journal</i> magazine and the author of <i>The Yoga of Breath</i>
Rev. David Matsumoto
Rev. David Matsumoto is a professor of contemporary Shin Buddhist studies at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley. He also serves as resident minister of the Berkeley Buddhist Temple.
Ayya Tathaaloka
Ayya Tathaaloka is a fully ordained bhikkhuni and the second Western woman to be designated as a Theravada bhikkhuni preceptor. She is the founder of Dhammadharini Vihara and cofounder of Aranya Bodhi Hermitage, both in California.
Doshin Nathan Woods
Doshin Nathan Woods is a novice Zen priest at Sweetwater Zen Center. He holds a PhD in cultural anthropology and teaches at the University of the West in Rosemead, California.
Bruce Victor
Bruce Victor is in the psychiatry department at the University of California at San Francisco an also in private practice in San Francisco.
Robin Bitner
Robin Bitner is in the psychiatry department at the University of California at San Francisco.
Roger Walsh
Roger Walsh is professor of psychiatry at the University of California at Irvine, as well as author of <em>Essential Spirituality: The Seven Central Practices</em> and <em>The World of Shamanism</em>, and coeditor of <em>Higher Wisdom: Eminent Elders Explore the Continuing Impact of Psychedelics</em>.
Daniel Scharpenburg
Daniel Scharpenburg lives in Kansas City with two kids and two cats. He runs the Monday Night Zen Group at the Rime Buddhist Center. Daniel has a BA in English from KU and he works for the federal government. Once a novice monk in the Rinzai Tradition, he dropped out of monk school to become a regular person. He has taken his inspiration mainly from Zen renegades and madmen like Ikkyu and Han Shan. He is a frequent guest teacher on Daily Dharma Gathering.
Myokei Caine-Barrett
Myokei Caine-Barrett, Shonin, was the first American woman and the first person of African Japanese descent to receive full ordination as a Nichiren priest. Today, she is the bishop of the Nichiren Shu Buddhist Order of North America. Based in Houston, where she is the guiding teacher of Myoken-ji Temple, she also leads two prison sanghas and has been active in Healing Warrior Hearts (a program for veterans returning home) and The Gathering: Buddhist Teachers of Black African Descent.
Cheryl Wilfong
Cheryl Wilfong is the author of <em>The Meditative Gardener: Cultivating Mindfulness of Body, Feelings, and Mind</em>.
Alex Cline
A native of Los Angeles, drummer-percussionist-composer Alex Cline has been a mainstay on the creative music scene in that city for almost forty years. He has released seven albums under his own name as well as many more collaborative projects. He is ordained in the Plum Village lineage of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.
Regina Valdez
Regina Valdez is a freelance writer, Engaged Buddhist, and outreach coordinator for Buddhist Global Relief and Compassion NYC. A recent graduate of One Earth Sangha's EcoSattva Training Program, she organized the Triple Gem Rolling Retreat for those wishing to attend the Peoples Climate March in Washington, DC.
Ray Buckner
Ray Buckner is a PhD Student in Religious Studies at Northwestern University. His research examines sexual violence in American Buddhism and transgender experiences with Buddhism in the United States. Ray's article, “Buddhist Teachers’ Responses to Sexual Violence: Epistemological Violence in American Buddhism” (2020), was published in <em>The Journal of Global Buddhism</em>. Ray's article, “Zen in Distress: Theorizing Gender Dysphoria and Traumatic Remembrance within Sōtō Zen Meditation” (2020), was published in <em>Religions</em>.
Peter Aronson
Peter Aronson is a freelance journalist and former NPR contributor currently living in Dharamsala. In addition to his writing, he is attending courses in Buddhism at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives.
Ajahn Buddhadasa
Ajahn Buddhadasa (1906–93) was one of Thailand's most influential Buddhist teachers. In 1932 he founded Suan Mokkhablarama, the first modern forest monastery in Thailand. His work would eventually inspire a new generation of socially concerned individuals both in Thailand and throughout the world.