Archives: Authors
Bhikkhu Bodhi
Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi is an American Buddhist monk, president of the Buddhist Association of the United States, and the founder and chair of Buddhist Global Relief, as well as the former editor and president of the Buddhist Publication Society in Kandy, Sri Lanka. His extensive translations of the Pali canon have informed dharma practice in the English-speaking world for decades.
Ajahn Jayasaro
Ajahn Jayasaro was ordained as a monk by Ajahn Chah in 1980. From 1997 to 2002 he served as abbot of Wat Pah Nanachat, an international monastery in the Thai Forest Tradition. Currently he lives in a hermitage in central Thailand.
Robin Kornman
Robin Kornman, PH.D., was a professor of comparative literature and a Tibetan Buddhist translator. He studied Slavic literature and Eastern European government, and was a Library of Congress fellow in international studies.
Erik Braun
Erik Braun is the author of <em>The Birth of Insight: Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw</em>, published by University of Chicago Press, November 2013. He is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia
Bruce Tift
Bruce Tift, MA, LMFT has been in private practice since 1979, taught at Naropa University for 25 years, and has given presentations in the US, Mexico, and Japan. He has been practitioner of Vajrayana Buddhism for more than 35 years.
Thupten Jinpa
Thupten Jinpa is a former Tibetan monk who holds a B.A. in philosophy and a Ph.D. in religious studies, both from Cambridge University. Since 1985, he has been the principal English translator to H.H. the Dalai Lama and has translated and edited numerous books by the Dalai Lama, including the New York Times Bestsellers<em> Ethics for the New Millennium</em> and <em>The Art of Happiness</em>. Jinpa’s own publications include works in Tibetan, English translations as well as books, including<em> A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives</em> and <em>Tsongkhapa: A Buddha in the Land of Snows</em>. Jinpa is the general editor of The Library of Tibetan Classics series, the main author of CCT (Compassion Cultivation Training), an eight-week formal program developed at Stanford University, and the founder and president of the Compassion Institute. He is the Chair of Mind and Life Institute, founder of the Institute of Tibetan Classics, and an adjunct professor at the School of Religious Studies at McGill University. Jinpa lives in Montreal and is married with two daughters.
David Chadwick
David Chadwick is the author of Crooked Cucumber, a biography of Shunryu Suzuki, and Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki. His website, cuke.com, is an archive of the world of Suzuki Roshi and those who knew him.
Colleen Morton Busch
Colleen Morton Busch holds an MFA in poetry, but she also writes nonfiction and fiction. Her work has appeared in a wide range of publications, including literary magazines, HuffPost, the Washington Post, Yoga Journal, Wild Hope and Orion. She’s the author of Fire Monks: Zen Mind Meets Wildfire, an acclaimed narrative account of the 2008 fire that threatened to destroy Tassajara monastery. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Karen Connelly
Karen Connelly is an award-winning Canadian author. For the full story of her brother’s accident, visit gofundme.com/BringDaveyHome.
Stephen Holoviak
Stephen Holoviak is a professor of management at Penn State University, Mont Alto, and the father of four children, one of whom has autism. He lives in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
Rachel Neumann
Rachel Neumann is a literary agent and the director of strategy at Idea Architects. She’s the author of <em>Not Quite Nirvana: A Skeptic’s Journey to Mindfulness</em>.
Kyo Maclear
Kyo Maclear is a visual arts writer and author of two novels, <em>Stray Love</em> and <em>The Letter Opener</em>. She lives in Toronto.
Tara Bennett-Goleman
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 <i>Emotional Intelligence</i> and <i>Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships</i>. Working as a science journalist, Goleman reports on the brain and behavioral sciences for <i>The New York Times</i>.
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.
Shinge Roko Sherry Chayat Roshi
Shinge Roko Sherry Chayat is the Abbot of the Zen Studies Society.