Archives: Authors
Josh Bartok
Josh Bartok (Keido Mu'nen) is the abbot (head teacher and spiritual director) at the Greater Boston Zen Center. He is a Dharma heir of James Ishmael Ford Roshi in both of the roshi's lineages: the ordained Soto Zen lineage of Jiyu Kennett, and the koan introspection lineage of John Tarrant.
Megan Rundel
Megan Rundel is the resident teacher at the Crimson Gate Meditation Community in Oakland, California.
Jenny Phillips
Jenny Phillips is the director and producer of the documentary film, <em>The Dhamma Brothers</em>, about the impact of vipassana meditation courses on the lives of inmates in a maximum-security prison in Alabama.
Thinley Norbu Rinpoche
Thinley Norbu Rinpoche (1931-2011) was an important modern teacher in the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. He was the eldest son of Dudjom Rinpoche, the former head of the Nyingma school, and also the father of Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche and Dungse Garab Rinpoche. Thinley Norbu Rinpoche was considered to be an emanation of the 14th-century Nyingma master Longchempa. He wrote many books including <em> A Cascading Waterfall of Nectar </em>, <em>White Sail</em>, and <em>The Small Golden Key </em>.
Samuel Bercholz
Samuel Bercholz is the founder and editor-in-chief of Shambhala Publications. He studied with Thinley Norbu Rinpoche for more than two decades, and has been teaching Buddhism and the Shambhala teachings for nearly four decades.
Sangye Khandro
Sangye Khandro has served as a translator for many prominent masters, including Thinley Norbu Rinpoche, and is one of the founders of Light of Berotsana Translation Group. A longtime practitioner of Vajrayana, she studied with Thinley Norbu and his father, Dudjom Rinpoche, her root teacher.
Rick Tetzeli
Rick Tetzeli, executive editor of Fast Company, has covered technology for two decades. He is the former deputy editor of Fortune, and editor of Entertainment Weekly.
Brent Schlender
Brent Schlender is one of the premiere chroniclers of the personal computer revolution, writing about every major figure and company in the tech industry. He covered Steve Jobs for the Wall Street Journal and Fortune for nearly 25 years.
Bhikkhuni Sudhamma
Sudhamma Bhikkhuni from Charlotte, North Carolina is the first American woman ordained in Sri Lanka and has been recognized at the United Nations in Bangkok as an "Outstanding Woman in Buddhism." She was ordained as a novice by her teacher Bhante H. Gunaratana and became a bhikkhuni in 2003. She was abbess of the Charlotte Buddhist Vihara.
Jitindriya
Jitindriya (Loraine Keats) was a nun for seventeen years in the Ajahn Chah/Ajahn Sumedho Forest tradition. She took ordination in Britain as a novice in 1988 and as a siladhara in 1990. After leaving the monastic order, she earned a master’s degree in Buddhist psychotherapy and now lives in New South Wales, Australia, where she has a clinical practice in Buddhist psychotherapy.
Cintamani
Cintamani (Elizabeth Day) has been a Buddhist practitioner for sixteen years, including six as an ordained member of the Amaravati and Cittaviveka (Chithurst) Theravada monastic communities in Britain. She has a doctorate in cultural studies and teaches and practices psychotherapy in Melbourne. She is currently editing a collection of writings by Buddhist women practitioners.
Thanissara
Thanissara (Mary Weinberg) was one of the first women to be ordained in the West as a nun in Ajahn Chah’s Forest tradition, initially as a <em>mae chee</em> (eight-precept nun), then as a nun in the siladhara order, based on the ten-precept ordination. She left the order after twelve years. She is director of Dharmagiri Hermitage and Outreach in South Africa, and a facilitator for the community dharma leader program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California.
Lama Palden Drolma
Lama Palden Drolma is a licensed psychotherapist and the founder and resident lama of Sukhasiddhi Foundation in San Rafael, California. She completed a three-year retreat under the direction of the late Kalu Rinpoche.
Phyllis Coletta
Phyllis Coletta is a a freelance writer, healthcare administrator, and Zen Buddhist chaplain. Her latest book is <a href="http://www.phylliscoletta.com/radical-joy-positive-side-effects-cancer-disasters/"><em>Radical Joy: How to Live Like There's No Tomorrow</em></a>. Her website is <a href="http://www.phylliscoletta.com/">www.phylliscoletta.com</a>.
Phillip Moffitt
Phillip Moffitt is a member of the Teachers Council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and the founder and president of the Life Balance Institute. He leads meditation retreats at Spirit Rock and at other Buddhist centers around the United States and Canada. He is the author of <em>Emotional Chaos to Clarity</em> and <em>Dancing with Life: Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering</em>.
Glenn Wallis
Glenn Wallis holds a Ph.D. in Buddhist studies from Harvard University’s Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies and is currently associate professor and chair of Applied Meditation Studies at the Won Institute of Graduate Studies. He is the translator and editor of the Modern Library edition of the Dhammapada.
Ben Gallagher
Ben Gallagher is a poet, essayist, and arts educator. He recently completed his MA in English & Cultural Studies, where he wrote on madness, grief, and contemporary art. He currently lives in Toronto.
Gail Silver
Gail Silver is the founder oand CEO of The School Mindfulness Project. She’s the author of the picture book <em>Anh’s Anger</em> and <em>Where Did Poppy Go?: A Story About Loss, Grief, and Renewal</em>
