Archives: Authors
Francesca Fremantle
Francesca Fremantle received her doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies at London University. She is a Buddhist teacher, scholar, and translator of Sanskrit and Tibetan works and was a student of Chögyam Trungpa starting in the late 1960s. Together with Trungpa Rinpoche, she translated <em>The Tibetan Book of the Dead</em>. She is also the author of <em>Luminous Emptiness: Understanding the Tibetan Book of the Dead</em>. She lives in London, England.
Chong Hae Sunim
Hae Sunim is abbot of the Providence Zen Center in Cumberland, Rhode Island.
Rev. Eijun Eidson
Rev. Eijun Eidson is a Shingon priest and headmaster of the Koyasan Shingon Tenchiji Temple in Fresno, California.
Ajahn Punnadhammo
Ajahn Punnadhammo is abbot of the Arrow River Forest Hermitage in northern Ontario.
Sarah Harding
Sarah Harding is a Tibetan translator and lama in the Kagyü school of Vajrayana Buddhism. She translated Jamgon Kongtrul's Creation and Completion (Wisdom Publications).
Shohaku Okumura
Shohaku Okumura was ordained as a Soto Zen priest in 1970 by the late Kosho Uchiyama Roshi. He now resides in Bloomington, Indiana, where he founded the Sanshin Zen Community.
Larry Smith
Larry Smith is Professor of English and Humanities at Firelands College of Bowling Green State University.
Darlene Cohen
Darlene Cohen was a Zen teacher and the author of several books including Turning Suffering Inside Out. She passed away in 2011.
Sienna Craig
Sienna Craig is a freelance writer in Berkeley who is writing a book about Mustang, Nepal.
Steve Glazer
Steve Glazer has been an elementary educator, arts administrator, and school director. He is the author of The Heart of Learning: Spirituality in Education (Tarcher/Putnam, 1999).
Robert Inchausti
Robert Inchausti is the author of Spitwad Sutras: Classroom Teaching as Sublime Vocation (Bergin & Garvey 1993), The Ignorant Perfection of Ordinary People (SUNY, 1991) and Thomas Merton’s American Prophecy (SUNY, 1998). He is a Professor of English at Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, California.
Ronald Colman
Ronald Colman received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and has taught political science for twenty years.
Todd Stein
Todd Stein is a freelance writer and former Sacramento Bee reporter who lives at the San Francisco Zen Center.
Roberto Mander
Roberto Mander is president of La Rete di Indra (Indra’s Net), a network of socially engaged Buddhist organizations in Italy associated with the Peacemaker Community.