Archives: Authors

Kyo Maclear

Kyo Maclear is a visual arts writer and author of two novels, Stray Love and The Letter Opener. She lives in Toronto.

Tara Bennett-Goleman is a psychotherapist and the author of the New York Times bestseller Emotional Alchemy who teaches workshops internationally with her husband, Daniel Goleman. She draws on her studies with Buddhist masters, including Sayadaw U Pandita, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche, and Adeu Rinpoche, in her new book, Mind Whispering: A New Map to Freedom from Self-Defeating Emotional Habits, excerpted in this issue. The book weaves together Eastern and Western approaches to the mind, the science of habit change, methods from cognitive therapy, and the wisdom teachings that horses whisper to us.

Daniel Goleman

Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., is the author of Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships. Working as a science journalist, Goleman reports on the brain and behavioral sciences for The New York Times.

Susan Murphy

Susan Murphy Roshi is the founding teacher of Zen Open Circle in Sydney, Australia. She is the author of Upside Down Zen and Minding the Earth, Mending the World.

Merle Kodo Boyd

Shinge Roko Sherry Chayat Roshi

Shinge Roko Sherry Chayat is the Abbot of the Zen Studies Society.

Philip Whalen

Sekkei Harada Roshi

Sekkei Harada Roshi is abbot of Hosshinji, a Soto Zen monastery in Fukui Prefecture, Japan.

John Daido Loori

John Daido Loori, Roshi (1939-2009) was the founder and director of the Mountains and Rivers Order and abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery in Mt. Tremper, New York.

Nyogen Senzaki

Arthur Braverman

Arthur Braverman studied at Antaiji temple in Japan under Uchiyama Roshi from 1970 to 1975. He is an author and translator, whose works include Mud and Water: The Collected Teachings of Zen Master Bassui, and a recently completed novel, Dharma Brothers Kodo and Tokujoo. He lives in Ojai, California.

Bernie Glassman

Roshi Bernie Glassman is an American Zenteacher and co-founder of the Zen Peacemakers, which was established in 1996 with his late wife Sandra Jishu Holmes.

Elaine Mansfield

Elaine Mansfield has focused on bereavement and hospice work since the death of her husband Vic Mansfield, author of Tibetan Buddhism and Modern Science: Toward a Union of Love and Knowledge. Her book Leaning into Love won the 2015 Gold Medal IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Awards) in the category Aging/Death & Dying. Elaine’s TEDx talk is called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBzEwf1k59Y">Good Grief! What I Learned from Loss</a>. For more information, see <a href="http://elainemansfield.com/">her website</a> or contact her on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/authorelainemansfield?ref=hl">Facebook</a> and on <a href="https://twitter.com/ElaineMansfiel7">Twitter</a>.

Holly Gayley

Holly Gayley is Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her first book, <a href="http://cup.columbia.edu/book/love-letters-from-golok/9780231180528">Love Letters from Golok: A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet</a>, comes out November, 2016, from Columbia University Press.

Noa Jones

Noa Jones is a freelance writer for The Los Angeles Times and other publications

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold is the abbot and resident teacher of Zen Mountain Monastery and abbot of the Zen Center of New York City. He received dharma transmission from John Daido Loori Roshi in 1997.

Josh Korda

Josh Korda has been the teacher at New York Dharma Punx since 2005. He has also taught at New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care and New York Insight Meditation Center.

Vincent Thibault

Larry Yang

Larry Yang teaches meditation retreats nationally and is committed to creating access to the dharma for diverse multicultural communities. He is a Spirit Rock teacher and is a core teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center (Oakland) and Insight Community of the Desert (Palm Springs). His book <a href="https://www.wisdompubs.org/book/awakening-together" rel="noopener">Awakening Together</a> is available at Wisdom Publications.

Gaylon Ferguson

Gaylon Ferguson, PhD, was core faculty in Religious and Interdisciplinary Studies for fifteen years at Naropa University. He has led mindfulness retreats since 1976 and is the author of Welcoming Beginner’s Mind (2024), Natural Wakefulness, and Natural Bravery.