Archives: Authors
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.
Ajahn Chah
Ajahn Chah trained in the Theravada practices of Buddhist meditation under Ajahn Mun, the greatest master of the Thai and Laotian forest tradition in many centuries, and lived the life of a simple forest monk for more than seventy years. His startling wisdom and simplicity attracted many western disciples, and in Thailand, more than a hundred forest monasteries grew up under his guidance.
Kiyonobu Joshin Kuwahara
Reverend Kiyonobu Joshin Kuwahara is a Jodo Shinshu priest and serves as a codirector of the Buddhist Churches of America Center for Buddhist Education.
Heather Wardle
Heather Wardle is a writer at Lion’s Roar and the editor of <em>The Power of Compassion</em> by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Claude Anshin Thomas
Vietnam Veteran Claude Anshin Thomas is a Zen Monk and a member of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. He is the author of "At Hell's Gate: A Soldier's Journey from War to Peace" and founder of the Zaltho Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending violence.