Archives: Authors
Stacy McClendon
Stacy McClendon (she/her) has been a student of Insight (Vipassana) meditation for nearly 20 years. Her home sangha is Common Ground Meditation Center, where she teaches and leads retreats. Stacy leads to promote strategies for understanding harmful stress reactions and responding with integrity, wisdom, and kindness. She offers mindfulness practices for employees and leaders in the public and private sectors, supporting skillful distress management and effective interpersonal engagement. Stacy is the Project Director for <a href="http://dharmarelief.org/healing-racial-trauma/">Dharma Relief 2</a>, an initiative dedicated to amplifying the voices and increasing the presence and longevity of Black dharma teachers.
Father Gregory Boyle
Father Gregory Boyle is the founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, the largest gang-intervention, rehabilitation, and re-entry program in the world.
Alisa Dennis
A teacher at Insight LA and Spirit Rock, Alisa Dennis is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice.
Rachel Goldsmith Turow
Rachel Goldsmith Turow is the author of <em>The Self-Talk Workout: Six Science-Backed Strategies to Dissolve Self-Criticism</em> and <em>Transform the Voice in Your Head.</em>
Reverend Michael Tran
Reverend Michael Tran is an ordained Buddhist minister who has practiced Buddhism for over thirty years. He’s provided compassionate, devoted spiritual care for over ten years, and provided Buddhist ritual services for over twenty years. He received a Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Cultures from the University of California, Irvine and a Master of Divinity in Buddhist Chaplaincy from the University of the West. Rev. Tran completed Clinical Pastoral Education at USC Arcadia Hospital.
Cathryn Dhanatya
Cathryn is cofounder and president/CEO of Growing Good Inc., a professional services firm that partners with nonprofit organizations and companies who aim to do good in the world. She has lived and worked on five continents, earned her PhD in Social Science and Comparative Education from UCLA, and has led and conducted research on media and technology as it relates to health issues around the globe.
Bodhi Leaves
<em>Bodhi Leaves</em> is a monthly digital publication featuring articles and teachings written and curated by Asian American Buddhists. <a href="https://mailchi.mp/0099f1a2d01f/bodhi-leaves" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Sign up </a>to receive Bodhi Leaves to your inbox.
Rev. Wow! (WonGong)
Rev. WonGong (affectionately known as Rev. Wow!Gong), a pioneering Won Buddhist priest, is head dharma teacher at the Won Buddhism Meditation Temples in Chapel Hill and Raleigh, North Carolina.
Sarwang Parikh
Sarwang Parikh grew up as a working-class immigrant within a devotional Hindu Indian family. He has studied and practiced Raja Yoga and Theravada Buddhist lineage for over twenty years. He serves the dharma at Buddhist Peace Fellowship and teaches at East Bay Meditation Center. Parikh is also a licensed psychotherapist weaving Eastern wisdom with a decolonized approach.
Lama Karma Zopa Jigme
Lama Karma Zopa Jigme is a practitioner, teacher, and translator in the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. He is cofounder of Prajna Fire and the Prajna Sparks podcast. Alongside dharma, he practices counseling psychology in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Lama Drupgyu Tenzin (Anthony Chapman)
Lama Drupgyu Tenzin (Anthony Chapman), a student of Kalu Rinpoche since 1972 and a monk from 1974 to 1995, participated in the first traditional three-year retreat for Westerners conducted completely in Tibetan, from 1976 to 1980, in France. He participated for six years in the translation of Jamgon Kongtrul’s Treasury of Knowledge. In 2000, Lama Drupgyu assisted in the establishment of Tsadra Foundation, a nonprofit that supports development of Vajrayana in the West, and is currently Vice President.
Sydney Shiroyama
Sydney Shiroyama is a Minister’s Assistant at the Palo Alto Buddhist Temple.
Carlos Dainei Barbosa
Carlos Dainei Barbosa es doctor en humanidades por la Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Es investigador en filosofía japonesa, filosofía de la religión y filosofía budista. Pertenece a la sangha zen Sōtō del templo Daishin (Bogotá). Actualmente enseña en la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional de Colombia. Hace parte de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Filosofía Intercultural (ALAFI), la Red Europea de Filosofía Japonesa (ENOJP) y la Red Colombiana de Filosofía de la Religión (RCFR).
Casey Forgues
Casey Forgues is a translator, researcher, and editor of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and tantric meditation manuals. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Vienna, editorial director of Khyentse Vision Project, and contributes translations for 84000. Her research focuses on tantric philosophical views on the luminous nature of mind according to the early Mahāmudrā tradition (eleventh–thirteenth centuries). She has published on topics including death and dying in tantric Buddhism, buddha nature, the six yogas of Nāropa, and luminosity in the Kalācakra tradition.
James H. Bae
James H. Bae, DACM, L.Ac is a doctor of Chinese medicine, author, and independent researcher. Dr. Bae’s therapeutic background includes the study of traditional Chinese, Japanese, Ayurvedic, and Tibetan medicine. He is authorized to teach Tibetan yoga in various traditional Buddhist lineages. James leads retreats in the U.S. and internationally, with a focus on the inner yogas, such as Tummo and Tsalung Trulkhor. For more information visit www.drjamesbae.com
Arleta Little
Arleta Little is the executive and artistic director at The Loft Literary Center and serves as the board chair of Common Ground Meditation Center in Minneapolis.
Yaotunde Obiora
Yaotunde Obiora is on the advisory council for Empty Cloud Monastery in New Jersey.
E. Ethelbert Miller
E. Ethelbert Miller’s collections of poetry include Where Are the Love Poems for Dictators? and How I Found Love Behind the Catcher’s Mask.
Dr. Toni Pressley-Sanon
Dr. Toni Pressley-Sanon is an associate professor in the department of Africology and African American Studies at Eastern Michigan University. She’s the author of <em>Lifting as They Climb: Black Women Buddhists and Collective Liberation</em>.