Archives: Authors
Leslie Booker
Leslie Booker brings her heart to the intersection of Dharma, Embodied Wisdom and Liberation. She was voted by her peers as one of the "12 Most Influential Women in the Mindfulness Movement," and is a graduate of Spirit Rock's four-year Teacher Training.
Anne Waldman
Anne Waldman is a poet, editor, performer, teacher, and activist who has published over thirty printed volumes, including the recent poetry collection "Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble". She is visiting writer and director at The Bowery Arts and Sciences Ltd., a nonprofit organization in New York dedicated to preserving and enhancing the oral tradition of poetry.
Gavin Harrison
Born in South Africa, Gavin Harrison is a vipashyana teacher who lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. He is gay, HIV+, and has a long involvement in anti-apartheid politics, as well as gay and AIDS civil rights work. His teaching focuses on dealing with life-threatening and chronic health problems.
Gretel Ehrlich
Gretel Ehrlich is an world renowned nature writer. After being struck by lightning, Ehrlich wrote "A Match to the Heart" about the experience. It was published in 1994.
José Ignacio Cabezón
José Ignacio Cabezón is a professor of religious studies and the XIV Dalai Lama Endowed Chair in Tibetan Buddhism and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. This teaching is adapted from his Frederick P. Lenz Distinguished Lecture given at Naropa University last September.
Andy Karr
Andy Karr is a Buddhist teacher, author, and photographer who offers profound insights into dharma and mind. Karr trained under Shunryu Suzuki Roshi and Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche before moving to Paris in 1979, where he co-founded the first Shambhala Centre in France. Karr is the author of Into the Mirror and Contemplating Reality and the coauthor of The Practice of Contemplative Photography. He continues to teach meditation, the Mahayana view, and Mahamudra. Learn more at <a href="https://www.andykarrauthor.com/">www.andykarrauthor.com</a>
Anyen Rinpoche
Anyen Rinpoche is the founder and spiritual director of the Orgyen Khamdroling Dharma Center in Denver, where he leads a shedra for Westerners and offers traditional teachings in the Longchen Nyingthig lineage. He is the author of Dying with Confidence and Momentary Buddhahood (Wisdom).
The Karmapa
His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje is the head of the 900-year-old Karma Kagyu Lineage and guide to millions of Buddhists around the world. The Karmapa resides in his temporary home at Gyuto Monastery in India after making a dramatic escape from Tibet in the year 2000. Traveling the world, the Karmapa teaches traditional Tibetan Buddhist teachings, while also advocating topics such as environmental care, feminism, and more.
Mary Rose O’Reilley
Mary Rose O'Reilley is a potter and folk musician. A Quaker-Buddhist who took the precepts in Plum Village, she follows the common threads in Buddhism, Christianity, and deep ecology. Her books include The Love of Impermanent Things and Half Wild, a volume of poetry which won the 2005 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets.
Christine Skarda
Christine Skarda is a philosopher, scientific theorist, and Buddhist nun based in Northern California. She has spent the last twenty-five years in retreat.
Dominique Butet
Dominique Butet is a teacher and a journalist. After meeting Olivier Adam in 2010, she joined his project to document the daily lives of Buddhist nuns across the Himalayas. Dominique contributes to various media outlets and in 2016 co-wrote a book on meditation for children, <i>The Magic of Meditation</i>. She also contributes to Petit Bambou (Mindfulness App) creating programs for children and editing a book for teachers.
Robert Aitken
Robert Aitken Roshi was cofounder of the Diamond Sangha and the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. He was the author of "Vegetable Roots Discourse: Wisdom from Ming China on Life and Living" (Shoemaker & Hoard).
Jeff Wilson
Jeff Wilson is an ordained minister in the Hongwanji-ha tradition of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism and a professor of religious studies and East Asian studies at Renison University College, University of Waterloo. He is the author of Buddhism of the Heart: Reflections on Shin Buddhism and Inner Togetherness, among other books.
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (1920–1996) spent thirty-three years at Nagi Gompa Hermitage—twenty of those in retreat—and established six retreat centers and monasteries in Nepal, including Tergar Osel Ling Monastery in Kathmandu. He was recognized as the reincarnation of both the Chowang Tulku and Nubchen Sangye Yeshe (one of Padmasambhava’s principal students). His teachings have been published in the two-volume <i>As It Is</i> and in the new <i>Vajra Heart Revisited</i>, published this year to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of his birth.
Kobai Scott Whitney
Kobai Scott Whitney is a freelance writer in Honolulu, and a student of Robert Aitken-roshi. He practiced at the San Francisco Zen Center throughout the 1970's.
Ösel Tendzin
OSEL TENDZIN (Thomas F. Rich) was Vajra Regent and dharma heir of the Vidyadhara Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. As such, he was the first American accepted as a lineage holder of the Kagyu tradition of vajrayana Buddhism. Osel Tendzin was co-founder of Shambhala Training and author of Buddha in the Palm of Your Hand. Following Trungpa Rinpoche's death in 1987, he was President of Vajradhatu and the Nalanda Foundation until his own death in 1990.