Archives: Authors
Bodhin Kjolhede
Bodhin Kjolhede is abbot of the Rochester Zen Center and dharma successor to the late Roshi Philip Kapleau.
Gelek Rimpoche
Gelek Rimpoche (1939-2017) was the founder of Jewel Heart, a Tibetan Buddhist Center located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the author the bestselling <i>Good Life, Good Death. </i>
Gelek Rinpoche
Gelek Rinpoche is a lama in the Gelukpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He is the spiritual director of Jewel Heart, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which has chapters in the United States, Singapore, Malaysia, and The Netherlands. He is the author of Good Life, Good Death: Tibetan Wisdom on Reincarnation.
Martin Baumann
Martin Baumann is co-editor of Westward Dharma: Buddhism beyond Asia (University of California Press) and professor of religions at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland.
Chris Lemig
Chris Lemig is the author of The Narrow Way: A Memoir of Coming Out, Getting Clean and Finding Buddha.
Steven D. Goodman
Steven D. Goodman studied under the noted Buddhist scholar Herbert Guenther, receiving a PhD in Far Eastern Studies in 1984. He went on to be awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship at Rice University to study Tibetan mystical poetry. Today, he is the program director of Asian philosophies and cultures at California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco. His new book is <em>The Buddhist Psychology of Awakening</em>. He passed away on August 3, 2020.
John Baker
John Baker is a student of the late Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and was a co-founder and the first CEO of Naropa University. He co-edited Trungpa Rinpoche’s books Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism and The Myth of Freedom. Retired after twenty-three years in business, he teaches Buddhism and leads psychotherapy groups in New York City.
Karin Muller
Karin Muller is a filmmaker, photographer, and adventurer. She writes for National Geographic and Traveler magazines.
Eva Wong
Eva Wong is a lineage holder of the Hsüan-k'ung (Mysterious Subtleties) school of traditional Chinese feng shui, as well as a practitioner of the San-yüan (Three Periods) and San-ho (Three Combinations) schools. She is a translator and the author of a number of books on feng shui and Taoism, including Nourishing the Essence of Life: The Outer, Inner, and Secret Teachings of Taoism and A Master Course in Feng shui.
James Gimian
James Gimian has been studying and teaching the Sun Tzu text for over twenty-five years. He served as general editor for The Art of War: Denma Translation, published in 2001.
Gil Fronsdal
Gil Fronsdal is the founder and primary teacher of the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California, and is part of the Vipassana teachers’ collective at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center.
Ian Prattis
Ian Prattis is a dharmacharya in the Engaged Buddhist tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, and gives talks and leads retreats in Europe, India, and North and South America. He is the author of The Essential Spiral: Ecology and Consciousness After 9/11 and The Buddha at the Gate.
Stephen Strauss
Stephen Strauss is an award-winning science writer and former columnist with the Globe and Mail newspaper in Toronto. He now freelances and writes a regular science column for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Mariana Caplan
Mariana Caplan, Ph.D., is the author of seven books, including Halfway Up the Mountain: The Error of Premature Claims to Enlightenment (Hohm Press, 1999), and Do You Need a Guru? Understanding the Student-Teacher Relationship in an Era of False Prophets (Thorsons, 2002).
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
Dzigar Kongtrül Rinpoche was born in Northern India and now lives in southern Colorado. He is the founder of Mangala Shri Bhuti, an organization dedicated to the study and practice of the teachings of the Longchen Nyingthik lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. He is the author of multiple books, including <em>Diligence</em> (Shambhala Publications).
Ajahn Sumedho
Ajahn Sumedho is abbot of the Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in Hemel Hempstead, England. Born in Seattle, he went to Thailand in 1966 to practice meditation, where he became a student of the late Ajahn Chah.