Archives: Authors
Melody Ermachild Chavis
Melody Ermachild Chavis is a student at the Berkeley Zen Center. Her second book, Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan: The Life of the Martyred Founder of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in August.
Shyalpa Rinpoche
The Venerable Shyalpa Rinpoche is the spiritual head of Shyalpa Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal, as well as the Rangrig Yeshe Center and Dzogchen Ati Ling Centers in the United States. His root teacher is the renowned Dzogchen master Chatral Rinpoche.
Daniel Menaker
Daniel Menaker is an executive editor at HarperCollins and the author of two collections of stories and a novel,<i> The Treatment</i>.
Miriam Greenspan
Miriam Greenspan is the author of A New Approach to Women and Therapy. Her forthcoming book, Healing Through the Dark Emotions: the Wisdom of Grief, Fear and Despair, will be published by Shambhala.
Leonard Koren
Leonard Koren is founder of the 1970's avant-garde publication <i>Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing,</i> and the author of several books, including <i>Gardens of Gravel and Sand</i> and <i>Undesigning the Bath</i>.
Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi
Kobun Otogawa (February 1, 1938 – July 26, 2002) was a Sōtō Zen priest.
Jim Bedard
Jim Bedard is author of <i>Lotus in the Fire: The Healing Power of Zen</i> (Shambhala Publications). He is a disciple of Sensei Sunyana Graef and a member of the Toronto Zen Center.
Richard Brown
Richard Brown teaches early childhood education at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.
Diana Atkinson
Diana Atkinson is the author of <i>Highways and Dancehalls</i>, a finalist in the Governor General of Canada’s Literary Awards. She is a massage therapist in Boulder, Colorado.
Fred Kofman
Fred Kofman is a consultant in organizational learning for a number of large companies and is the founder of Leading Learning Communities, based in Boulder, Colorado.
Toni Packer
Toni Packer (1927 – 2013) was a teacher of Meditative Inquiry and the founder of Springwater Center in New York. Packer was a former student in the Sanbo Kyodan lineage of Zen Buddhism.
Alexander Boldizar
Alexander Boldizar is a Slovak-born Canadian lawyer and writer who has lived throughout Asia, most recently in Nepal and Indonesia. He is author of the novel <i>Flypaper Coils</i>.
Roger Guest
Roger Guest was co- director of Karmê Chöling from 1980 to 1986 and is now director of the Boston Shambhala Meditation Center.
Charles Prebish
Dr. Charles Prebish is the author of <em>Luminous Passage: The Practice and Study of Buddhism in America</em>, and co-editor of <em>The Faces of Buddhism in America</em>. He held the Charles Redd Chair in Religious Studies at <a href="https://chass.usu.edu/history/directory/emeritus/charles-prebish" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Utah State University</a> from 2007 until 2010.
Don Farber
Don Farber is best known for his widely seen photographs of the Dalai Lama. In 1997, he received a Fulbright Scholarship to research and photograph Tibetan Buddhist life in India and Nepal.
Eric Holm
Dorje Loppön Eric Holm, a close student of the Vidyadhara Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, was apppointed by him to oversee practice and study at Vajradhatu centers from 1976 until 1991. As Dorje Loppön he was responsible for the hinayana, mahayana, and especially vajrayana training of students. As well as teaching dharma and Shambhala Training programs, he currently works as a technical lead in a software company.
Roshi Eve Myonen Marko
Roshi Eve Myonen Marko is a founding teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order and Executive Director of the Peacemaker Community Foundation.
Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche
Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche (1904-1987) was supreme head of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. Charged by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 1959 with leading the Nyingma sect in exile and ensuring the preservation of its ancient tradition, he was a Dzogchen teacher to many important lamas, including the Dalai Lama himself, and played a major role in the transmission of vajrayana Buddhism to the West.