Chris Stewart-Patterson

Chris Stewart-Patterson, M.D. is assistant professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia and works as an emergency department physician at an inner city hospital in Vancouver.

John Kain

John Kain is a freelance writer and poet from New York.

Samuel Fromartz

Samuel Fromartz is a freelance writer based in Washington, D.C., and a participant in the Capitol Hill Mindfulness Community.

Mark Epstein

Mark Epstein, M.D. is author of <i>Thoughts Without a Thinker</i> and <i>Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart</i>.

Will Johnson

Will Johnson has been a Buddhist practitioner since 1972 and a certified rolfer since 1976. He is author of <i>The Posture of Meditation</i> and <i>Aligned, Relaxed, Resilient: The Physical Foundations of Mindfulness.</i>

Paul Maxwell

Paul Maxwell is a writer and editor in Berryville, Virginia.

Robert Hirshfield

Robert Hirschfield is a social worker in New York and a freelance writer whose work has appeared in a number of spiritually-oriented magazines.

Daigaku Rummé

Daigaku Rummé was ordained a Soto monk in 1978 by Harada Sekkei Roshi. He currently works at the Soto Zen Buddhism International Center in San Francisco.

Steven Heine

Steven Heine

Steven Heine is director of the Asian Studies Program at Florida International University. He has published numerous books on the life and thought of Dogen, including the forthcoming <a href="https://www.shambhala.com/dogen.html"><em>Dogen: Japan’s Original Zen Teacher</em></a> (Shambhala).

Mu Soeng

Mu Soeng is the resident scholar at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies in Barre, Massachusetts.

Ajahn Munindo

Ajahn Munindo is the abbot of Aruna Ratanigiri Buddhist monastery in Harnham, England. He was ordained by Ajahn Chah in 1975.

Ron Garry

Ron Garry is a scholar of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and the translator of <i>Wisdom Nectar: Dudjom Rinpoche’s Heart Advice</i> (Snow Lion Publications).

Hoko Jan Karnegis

Hoko Jan Karnegis was ordained by Shohaku Okumura in 2005. She is the director of his sangha, the Sanshin Zen community.

Diane Eshin Rizzetto

Diane Eshin Rizzetto is the abbess of the bay Zen center in Oakland, California. and is the author of <i>Waking Up to What You Do: a Zen Practice for Meeting Every Situation with Intelligence and Compassion </i>(Shambhala Publications).

Denma Translation Group

The Denma Translation Group is led by James Gimian and Kidder Smith, director of the Asian Studies Program at Bowdoin College. The members all received training in a contemplative discipline created by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche called the Dorje Kasung, which draws on the practices of Tibetan Buddhism, the Shambhala vision of enlightened society, and some Western military forms.

Wing Shing Chan

Wing Shing Chan has studied closely with Master Sheng Yen and is a freelance writer on Chan Buddhism. He lives in Hong Kong.

Tyler Dewar

Tyler Dewar serves as an oral and textual translator for Nalandabodhi, an international network of Buddhist study and meditation centers, and for Nitartha Institute, an annual, month-long program of advanced Buddhist studies.