Archives: Authors
JoAnna Hardy
JoAnna Hardy is an insight meditation (Vipassanā) practitioner and teacher; she is on faculty at the University of Southern California, a meditation trainer at Apple Fitness+, a founding member and teacher at the Meditation Coalition, a visiting teacher at Black Being LA, a visiting retreat teacher at Insight Meditation Society, and a collaborator on many online meditation Apps and programs.
Paul Swanson
Paul L. Swanson is a research fellow at Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan, and the editor of the <em>Japanese Journal of Religious Studies</em>.
Rev. Liên Shutt
Rev. Keiryu Liên Shutt is a Dharma heir in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. Born into a Buddhist family in Vietnam, she began her meditation practice in the Insight tradition. She was a founding member of the Buddhists of Color in 1998. Her Zen trainings began at Tassajara and then continued monastically in Japan and Vietnam. While she has placed her trust and faith in Soto Zen, she continues to enjoy the deep silence of Insight practices and has completed retreats in America and Thailand. Please go to <a href="https://awakeinlife.org/">AwakeInLife.org</a> for info on the sitting group and other events.
Mitchell Ratner
Mitchell Ratner is founder of the Still Water Mindfulness Practice Center in Maryland.
Marguerite Manteau-Rao
Marguerite Manteau–Rao is the author of <i>Caring For a Loved One With Dementia.</i>
Clair Brown
Clair Brown, PhD, an economics professor at UC Berkeley, is the author of <em>Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science.</em> She practices engaged Buddhism in her climate justice activism with several organizations working on California climate policies.
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>.