Archives: Authors
Rev. angel Kyodo williams
Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Sensei, peers at society, change, love, and justice through the lens of dharma. She sees liberation there. She is the author of <i>Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living With Fearlessness and Grace</i>, and co-author, with Lama Rod Owens and Jasmine Syedullah Ph.D., of <i>Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation.</i>
Lilian Cheung
Dr. Lilian Cheung is a Lecturer, Director of Health Promotion & Communication, and Editorial Director of The Nutrition Source website at the Harvard School of Public Health’s Department of Nutrition.
Esther Brandon
Esther Brandon has practiced yoga and mindfulness meditation for 35 years. After retiring from Lesley University in 2012, Esther completed the Yoga 4 Classrooms® Licensure Program for Trainers, and she is in training to become a CARE (Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education) facilitator. She has begun presenting an introduction to CARE for the Yoga 4 Classrooms IMPLEMENT™ Leader Training program focused on empowering schools to use teaming and in-school leaders to sustainably integrate yoga and mindfulness school wide.
Laura Munson
Laura Munson is the author of This Is Not the Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness.
Michael O’Keefe
Michael O'Keefe is a Golden Globe- and Academy Award-nominated actor. He's appeared in the films Eye In the Sky, Michael Clayton, Frozen River, The Pledge, Ironweed, The Great Santini, and Caddyshack. Television audiences will recognize him as CIA Agent John Redmond on Homeland. His writing has appeared in BOMB, Mindful, and other magazines. A practitioner of Zen for almost thirty years, he is a Dharma Holder in the Zen Peacemaker Order.
Krista Tippett
Krista Tippett is the creator of the public radio show and podcast On Being, a National Humanities medalist, and the author of the forthcoming book Becoming Wise.
Evelyn C. White
Evelyn C. White lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and is the author of Alice Walker: A Life.
Ellen-Marie Silverman
A mindfulness meditation practitioner since 1996, Ellen-Marie Silverman has found mindfulness useful in resolving her long-standing stuttering problem. A speech pathologist, she described her experience in the book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-Stuttering-Eastern-Strategies-Greater/dp/1478385111/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1457120843&sr=1-1&keywords=mindfulness+%26+stuttering"><em>Mindfulness & Stuttering</em></a>, published in 2012. In 2016, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/winning-novel-Ellen-Marie-Silverman/dp/1519776268/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1457120968&sr=1-1&keywords=stuttering+lgbt"><em>winning</em></a>,” a young adult novel, the second in The Jason Trilogy she is writing, was published. The series portrays the effect of a stuttering problem on one person’s life from age 10 to age 50. Ellen-Marie Silverman, a poet, lives in the United States near the Lake Michigan shore.
Robert Langan
Robert Langan is a psychoanalyst and longtime Buddhist practitioner. He is the author of <em>Minding What Matters: Psychotherapy and the Buddha Within</em>.
Vidyamala Burch
Vidyamala was ordained into the Triratna Buddhist Order in 1995. She is cofounder of Breathworks, which offers training in mindfulness-based management of pain and illness.
Arunlikhati
Arunlikhati is a blogger at <a href="http://www.angryasianbuddhist.com/">Angry Asian Buddhist</a> and <a>Dharma Folk</a>.
Mahasi Sayadaw
Mahasi Sayadaw (1904–1982) was a Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk and meditation master. His style of practice had a significant influence on the teachings of Vipassana (Insight) meditation in the West and throughout Asia. This teaching is from his most famous work, Manual of Insight, forthcoming in May in a new translation from Wisdom Publications.
Annabella Pitkin
Annabella Pitkin is assistant professor of Buddhism and East Asian Religions at Lehigh University. She specializes in Tibetan Buddhism and Asian intellectual history.
Aura Glaser
Aura Glaser is an author, psychologist, photographer, and dharma coyote. After decades of deep immersion as student and teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, she is no longer affiliated with a particular tradition. Her website is <a href="https://www.auraglaser.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.auraglaser.com</a>.
Rebecca Li
Rebecca Li, PhD, is the founder and guiding teacher of Chan Dharma Community and the author of <em>Illumination: A Guide to the Buddhist Method of No-Method</em>.
Nadia Colburn
Nadia Colburn is an OI Aspirant in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village Tradition, a coach and creative writer. She holds a PhD in English from Columbia University, is a founding editor at Anchor Magazine: where spirituality and social justice meet, and has been published widely in such places as The New Yorker, Yes! Magazine, and LA Review of Books. Her coaching business, AlignYourLight, helps clients and groups live with alignment, integrity and fullness from their deepest knowing in a culture so often out of alignment and full of contradictions. See more at <a href="http://www.nadiacolburn.com">www.nadiacolburn.com</a>.
Vince Fakhoury Horn
Vincent Horn is a cofounder of Buddhist Geeks, which asks, "How can we serve the convergence of Buddhism with rapidly evolving technology and an increasingly global culture?"
Michael Stroud
Michael Stroud is a freelance writer living in southern California. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Asian Wall Street Journal, and other publications.
Russell Evans
Russell Evans is the director of Transition Lab, a school that teaches people realistic ways to take radical steps toward creating a more just, fun, and beautiful world. Transition Lab powers this work by meeting basic needs through relationships rather than money. Its students develop ways of living that allow them to use their gifts to create better livelihoods for a new economy.