Archives: Authors

Elaine Mansfield

Elaine Mansfield has focused on bereavement and hospice work since the death of her husband Vic Mansfield, author of <em>Tibetan Buddhism and Modern Science: Toward a Union of Love and Knowledge</em>. Her book <em>Leaning into Love</em> 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"><em>Love Letters from Golok: A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet</em></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. He is the author of <em>Unsubscribe: Opt Out of Delusion, Tune In to Truth</em>.

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"><em>Awakening Together</em></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 <i>Welcoming Beginner’s Mind</i> (2024), <i>Natural Wakefulness</i>, and <i>Natural Bravery</i>.

Sam Moore

Sam Moore likes reading and writing about pop culture, updating old magazine articles, and writing about himself in the third person, which is to say he's writing this. He says hi.

Bardor Tulku Rinpoche

Bardor Tulku Rinpoche is the founder and spiritual director of Kunzang Palchen ling in Red Hook, New York. Recognized by the Sixteenth Karmapa as the third incarnation of Terchen Barway Dorje (1836–1918), he has worked to preserve the treasure lineage teachings and present them to a Western audience.

Ira Sukrungruang

Ira Sukrungruang is the author of the memoir Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy and the co-editor of What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology and Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology.

Andrew Merz

Gyalwang Drukpa

Pema Khandro Rinpoche

Pema Khandro is a teacher and scholar of Buddhist philosophy, as well as a lineage holder in the Nyingma and Kagyu traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. She founded the nonprofit organization Ngakpa International and its three projects, the Buddhist Studies Institute, Dakini Mountain, and the Yogic Medicine Institute. She is completing a doctorate specializing in Tibetan Buddhism at the University of Virginia.

Allan Lokos

Ben Moore

Ben Moore is the Publisher of <em>Lion's Roar</em>, <em>Buddhadharma</em>, and LionsRoar.com.

Ethan Nichtern

Ethan Nichtern is a Buddhist teacher and the author of <em>Confidence: Holding Your Seat through Life’s Eight Worldly Winds</em> and <em>The Road Home: A Contemporary Exploration of the Buddhist Path.</em>

Ellie Krug

Ellie Krug holds degrees from Coe College and Boston College Law School and has more than 100 trials to her credit. In 2009, Ellie transitioned from male to female. She then became the only Iowa attorney, and one of the few nationally, to try jury cases in separate genders. Ellie presently works as the executive director of a nonprofit that helps connect low-income people with legal resources in the Twin Cities. Ellie lives in Minneapolis, where she is a freelance writer for two publications, including <em>Lavender Magazine</em>. Her memoir, <em>Getting to Ellen: A Memoir about Love, Honesty and Gender Change</em> (Stepladder Press), was published in February 2013. Visit her online at: <a href="http://www.gettingtoellen.com">www.gettingtoellen.com</a> and <a href="http://www.elliekrug.com">www.elliekrug.com</a>.

David Loy

David Loy is a scholar and a Zen teacher in the Sanbo Zen tradition. His latest book is <em>A New Buddhist Path: Enlightenment, Evolution, and Ethics in the Modern World</em>; he is also co-editor of <em>A Buddhist Response to the Climate Emergency</em>.

Jules Shuzen Harris

A psychotherapist and Soto Zen priest, Jules Shuzen Harris is the founder of the Soji Zen Center in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania.