Archives: Authors
Carlos Dainei Barbosa
Carlos Dainei Barbosa es doctor en humanidades por la Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Es investigador en filosofía japonesa, filosofía de la religión y filosofía budista. Pertenece a la sangha zen Sōtō del templo Daishin (Bogotá). Actualmente enseña en la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional de Colombia. Hace parte de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Filosofía Intercultural (ALAFI), la Red Europea de Filosofía Japonesa (ENOJP) y la Red Colombiana de Filosofía de la Religión (RCFR).
Casey Forgues
Casey Forgues is a translator, researcher, and editor of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and tantric meditation manuals. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Vienna, editorial director of Khyentse Vision Project, and contributes translations for 84000. Her research focuses on tantric philosophical views on the luminous nature of mind according to the early Mahāmudrā tradition (eleventh–thirteenth centuries). She has published on topics including death and dying in tantric Buddhism, buddha nature, the six yogas of Nāropa, and luminosity in the Kalācakra tradition.
James H. Bae
James H. Bae, DACM, L.Ac is a doctor of Chinese medicine, author, and independent researcher. Dr. Bae’s therapeutic background includes the study of traditional Chinese, Japanese, Ayurvedic, and Tibetan medicine. He is authorized to teach Tibetan yoga in various traditional Buddhist lineages. James leads retreats in the U.S. and internationally, with a focus on the inner yogas, such as Tummo and Tsalung Trulkhor. For more information visit www.drjamesbae.com
Arleta Little
Arleta Little is the executive and artistic director at The Loft Literary Center and serves as the board chair of Common Ground Meditation Center in Minneapolis.
Yaotunde Obiora
Yaotunde Obiora is on the advisory council for Empty Cloud Monastery in New Jersey.
E. Ethelbert Miller
E. Ethelbert Miller’s collections of poetry include Where Are the Love Poems for Dictators? and How I Found Love Behind the Catcher’s Mask.
Dr. Toni Pressley-Sanon
Dr. Toni Pressley-Sanon is an associate professor in the department of Africology and African American Studies at Eastern Michigan University. She’s the author of <em>Lifting as They Climb: Black Women Buddhists and Collective Liberation</em>.
Karen Jensen
Karen Jensen is a writer and editor based in New York City, and has worked for <em>Tricycle: the Buddhist Review</em>, Sakyadhita, and other Buddhist organizations. She’s interested in the psychology of language learning, religious presence, and how spirituality is changing to fit our world. You can read more of her writing <a href="https://syrupysouvenir.notion.site/syrupysouvenir/karen-jensen-s-portfolio-7e4385a936bc4c07b3f23aa808e3f954" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a>.
Ian A. Baker
Ian A. Baker, PhD, is the author of seven books on Tibetan Buddhist culture and Himalayan sacred geography, including <em>Tibetan Yoga: Principles and Practices</em> and <em>The Heart of the World: A Journey to Tibet’s Lost Paradise</em>. He is cofounder, with Dr. Nida Chenagtsang, of The Vajra Path, an initiative for bringing traditions of Vajrayana Buddhism into interdisciplinary dialogue with contemporary culture as well as with<br>parallel traditions across time and geographies.
Charlie Morley
Charlie Morley is a bestselling author and teacher of lucid dreaming, shadow integration, and mindfulness of dream and sleep. He’s been lucid dreaming for over twenty years and was authorized to teach within the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism by Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche in 2008. Since then he has written four books, which have been translated into fifteen languages, and has run workshops and retreats in more than twenty countries.
Lama Glenn Mullin
Lama Glenn Mullin trained for twelve years in the Himalayas in a program designed for Westerners by the Dalai Lama. He has published some three dozen books on Tibetan Buddhist spirituality, art, and culture, a dozen of which focus on the lives and teachings of the early Dalai Lamas. He has traveled and taught Vajrayana meditation for six months a year for the past thirty years.
David Gonsalez
David Gonsalez was the translator of numerous sadhanas and texts and served for many years as the personal translator and attendant for Gen Lobsang Chophel. He was the president of Dechen Ling, a nonprofit organization that works with the Tibetan community in exile to establish their monasteries and traditions.
Lama Karma Wall
Lama Karma Wall is a teacher in the Karma Kagyu and Shangpa Kagyu lineages of Tibetan Buddhism and the director of the <a href="https://www.mocd.org/">Milarepa Retreat Center</a> in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. He is also the lead designer and facilitator for <a href="https://anuma.com/">aNUma</a> , a company bringing sacred group experiences in virtual reality to persons with terminal illness.
Thomas J. Mazanec
Thomas J. Mazanec is an Associate Professor of Premodern Chinese and Comparative Literature at UC Santa Barbara.
Edward Henning
Edward Henning (1949–2016) was a leading Western authority on Kālachakra, having studied for decades with Tibetan masters of the Jonang tradition in particular. A mathematician by profession with an interest in computer programming and journalism, Henning applied his expertise to Tibetan calendrical systems with Kālacakra and the Tibetan Calendar (AIBS, 2007). Some of his essays on Kālachakra and related topics remain available at his website, www.kalacakra.org.
Jeffrey W. Cupchik
Jeffrey W. Cupchik is an ethnomusicologist specializing in Buddhist studies, ritual music, and anthropology of religion. He has spent over twenty years studying Tibetan language, music, culture, and religion in Tibetan communities in India, Nepal, Tibet, Canada, and the United States.
Francis Sanzaro
Francis Sanzaro PhD is a climber, academic, speaker, and the author of books on philosophy, climbing, athletic theory and comparative religion. His essays, poetry and fiction have appeared in <em>The New York Times, Outside, Huffington Post, Climbing, Adventure Journal, The Baltimore Post Examiner, Continental Philosophy Review, </em>and<em> Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Rock and Ice, </em>among a dozen others. His books include the bestseller <em>Zen of Climbing</em>, <em>The Boulder: A Philosophy for Bouldering</em>; and <em>Society Elsewhere: Why the Gravest Threat to Humanity Will Come From Within</em>. He appeared at TEDx Ascend in Colorado speaking on approaches to risk and our relationship with the natural world. He is currently writing <em>Zen of the Wild: A Philosophy for Nature</em>.
Dolma Gunther
Dolma Gunther is the founder and executive director of Khyentse Vision Project, and is responsible for developing and delivering the project’s strategic vision. Dolma is a lawyer, editor, translator, and film director. She studied Tibetan language in Darjeeling and University of Washington, and has over twenty-years experience translating and editing Tibetan Buddhist texts. Dolma completed three-year retreat in Chanteloube, France, and currently lives in Australia.
Venerable Hui Cheng
Venerable Hui Cheng is a Buddhist monk of the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Order who's currently serving at Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights, California.