Archives: Authors
Steve Peskind
Steve Peskind was the coordinator of the Buddhist AIDS Project in San Francisco. His anthology of work is titled <em>Heart Lessons From an Epidemic: Buddhist Practice and Living with HIV</em>, published by Parallax Press. Steve died in 2004.
Judith Simmer-Brown
Judith Simmer-Brown is Distinguished Professor of Contemplative and Religious Studies at Naropa University and a senior Buddhist teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition.
Joanna Burger
Joanna Burger is distinguished professor of biology at Rutgers University, where she teaches animal behavior. An ecologist, behavioral biologist, and ecotoxicologist, she has studied migrating and foraging birds, the effects of contaminants on avian development, and birds as indicators of environmental health. She is the author of <em>The Parrot Who Owns Me</em> and <em>A Visual Guide to Birds</em>.
John Welwood
John Welwood, Ph.D. (1943-2019) was a psychotherapist and student of Tibetan Buddhism for more than thirty-five years. His books include <em>Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart</em>.
Brenda Shoshanna
Brenda Shoshanna is a psychologist and a practitioner of both Zen and Judaism. She is the author of Jewish Dharma and Zen and the Art of Falling in Love. Her work focuses on integrating East and West, and she offers workshops on relationships and personal and spiritual development. Her new book is Fearless (The 7 Principles of Peace of Mind): <a href="http://becomefearless.org/">becomefearless.org</a>.
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>