Archives: Authors
Matthieu Ricard
Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk who had a promising career in cellular genetics before leaving France thirty-five years ago to study Buddhism in the Himalayas. He is an author, translator, and has been a participant in scientific research on the effects that meditation has on the brain. Ricard’s work is held high regard in intellectual circles in Europe, and two books he co-authored, The Monk and the Philosopher and The Quantum and the Lotus, are best-sellers in France. He lives in Tibet and Nepal.
Sumi Loundon Kim
Sumi Loundon Kim is the Buddhist chaplain at Yale University and founder of the Mindful Families of Durham. She is editor of the anthologies <em>Blue Jean Buddha</em> and <em>The Buddha’s Apprentices</em>, from Wisdom Publications, and the author of <em>Sitting Together: A Family-Centered Curriculum on Mindfulness, Meditation, and Buddhist Teachings</em>.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. is Associate Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine at U.C.S.F. Medical School and co-founder and medical director of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program. She is author of the bestseller, <em>Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal</em>.
Irini Rockwell
Irini Rockwell is the author of <em>The Five Wisdom Energies: A Buddhist Way of Understanding Personalities, Emotions and Relationships</em> (Shambhala, 2002). She leads workshops on the buddha families throughout North America and Europe.
Perry Garfinkel
Perry Garfinkel is the author of “Buddha or Bust: In Search of Truth, Meaning, Happiness and the Man Who Found Them All” (Three Rivers Press, 2007).
Sylvia Boorstein
Sylvia Boorstein is a psychologist and leading teacher of Insight Meditation. Her many best-selling books include <em>Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake</em> and <em>Happiness Is An Inside Job</em>.
John Malkin
John Malkin hosts a weekly radio program on Free Radio Santa Cruz, focusing on social change and spiritual growth.
Robert Thurman
Robert Thurman is a professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, and President of Tibet House U.S.
Alan Clements
Alan Clements is founder of the Burma Project USA and an expert on the democracy movement in Burma. He lived in Burma for eight years, for much of that time as a Buddhist monk. He is the author of Burma: The Next Killing Fields? (1991), and co-author of the photographic book Burma’s Revolution of the Spirit (1991). He was an advisor on the film Beyond Rangoon and speaks frequently on Burma’s struggle for democracy. The Voice of Hope was published by Seven Stories Press.
bell hooks
<a href="/bell-hooks/">bell hooks</a> (1952-2021) described herself as a "Black woman intellectual, revolutionary activist." A leading cultural critic and thinker about such issues as feminism and race, bell hooks published more than 30 books, including <em>All About Love: New Visions</em>.
Sandy Boucher
Sandy Boucher is a writer, teacher and editor with forty years’ experience of Buddhism. She is the author of nine books, including <em>Turning the Wheel, Hidden Spring, Dancing in the Dharma</em> and <em>She Appears!: Encounters with Kwan Yin Bodhisattva of Compassion.<strong> </strong></em>For information on her background, writing consultation and editing work see <a href="http://sandyboucher.info/">Sandyboucher.info</a>
Bonnie Myotai Treace
Bonnie Myotai Treace, Sensei, served for many years as vice-abbess of Zen Mountain Monastery and abbess of the Zen Center of New York City. In 2004, she founded Hermitage Heart, a Zen training program with a special emphasis on home practice. She lives and teaches in Black Mountain, North Carolina.
Rita M. Gross
Rita M. Gross is author of the influential book <em>Buddhism After Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism </em>and many other books and articles. She is a senior teacher under Khandro Rinpoche, and also studies with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.
Maezumi Roshi
Taizan Maezumi Roshi was a pivotal figure in the transmission of Zen Buddhism to the West. Ordained as a Zen monk at age 11, he moved to the United States from Japan in 1956. Maezumi Roshi was founder and abbot of the Zen Center of Los Angeles, and founded five other Soto Zen temples in the United States and Europe. He transmitted the dharma to twelve successors and established the White Plum Asanga to carry on his lineage.
Jakusho Kwong Roshi
Jakusho Kwong Roshi, a successor in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, is the founder and abbot of the Sonoma Mountain Zen Center outside of Santa Rosa, California.
Blanche Hartman
Zenkei Blanche Hartman (1926-2016) was a Senior Dharma Teacher and the first woman Abbot of San Francisco Zen Center.
Eido T. Shimano Roshi
Eido T. Shimano Roshi is the former abbot of the New York Zendo in New York City, and of Dai Bosatsu Zendo, a Zen monastery in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York.