Archives: Authors

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 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 Lifting as They Climb: Black Women Buddhists and Collective Liberation.

Karen Jensen

Karen Jensen is a writer and editor based in New York City, and has worked for Tricycle: the Buddhist Review, Sakyadhita, and other Buddhist organizations. She’s interested in the psychology of language learning, religious presence, and how spirituality is changing to fit our world. You can read more of her writing <a href="https://syrupysouvenir.notion.site/syrupysouvenir/karen-jensen-s-portfolio-7e4385a936bc4c07b3f23aa808e3f954" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a>.

Ian A. Baker

Ian A. Baker, PhD, is the author of seven books on Tibetan Buddhist culture and Himalayan sacred geography, including Tibetan Yoga: Principles and Practices and The Heart of the World: A Journey to Tibet’s Lost Paradise. He is cofounder, with Dr. Nida Chenagtsang, of The Vajra Path, an initiative for bringing traditions of Vajrayana Buddhism into interdisciplinary dialogue with contemporary culture as well as with parallel traditions across time and geographies.

Charlie Morley

Charlie Morley is a bestselling author and teacher of lucid dreaming, shadow integration, and mindfulness of dream and sleep. He’s been lucid dreaming for over twenty years and was authorized to teach within the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism by Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche in 2008. Since then he has written four books, which have been translated into fifteen languages, and has run workshops and retreats in more than twenty countries.

Lama Glenn Mullin

Lama Glenn Mullin trained for twelve years in the Himalayas in a program designed for Westerners by the Dalai Lama. He has published some three dozen books on Tibetan Buddhist spirituality, art, and culture, a dozen of which focus on the lives and teachings of the early Dalai Lamas. He has traveled and taught Vajrayana meditation for six months a year for the past thirty years.

David Gonsalez

David Gonsalez was the translator of numerous sadhanas and texts and served for many years as the personal translator and attendant for Gen Lobsang Chophel. He was the president of Dechen Ling, a nonprofit organization that works with the Tibetan community in exile to establish their monasteries and traditions.

Lama Karma Wall

Lama Karma Wall is a teacher in the Karma Kagyu and Shangpa Kagyu lineages of Tibetan Buddhism and the director of the <a href="https://www.mocd.org/">Milarepa Retreat Center</a> in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. He is also the lead designer and facilitator for <a href="https://anuma.com/">aNUma</a> , a company bringing sacred group experiences in virtual reality to persons with terminal illness.

Thomas J. Mazanec

Thomas J. Mazanec is an Associate Professor of Premodern Chinese and Comparative Literature at UC Santa Barbara.

Edward Henning

Edward Henning (1949–2016) was a leading Western authority on Kālachakra, having studied for decades with Tibetan masters of the Jonang tradition in particular. A mathematician by profession with an interest in computer programming and journalism, Henning applied his expertise to Tibetan calendrical systems with Kālacakra and the Tibetan Calendar (AIBS, 2007). Some of his essays on Kālachakra and related topics remain available at his website, www.kalacakra.org.