Archives: Authors
Thubten Chodron
Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron is the founder and abbess of Sravasti Abbey in Newport, Washington, and the author of <em>Don’t Believe Everything You Think</em>. She was ordained as a Buddhist nun in 1977 and received full bhikshuni ordination in Taiwan in 1986.
Ross Bolleter Roshi
Ross Bolleter Roshi is a teacher in the Diamond sangha tradition and a dharma successor of Robert Aitken and John Tarrant. He is the senior teacher of Zen Group of Western Australia in Perth.
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Tsoknyi Rinpoche is a meditation master in the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism and son of the late Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. He teaches widely in the West and oversees nunneries and monasteries in Tibet and Nepal. His most recent book, co-written with Daniel Goleman, is <em>Why We Meditate: The Science and Practice of Clarity and Compassion</em>.
Kay Larson
Kay Larson is an art critic and the author of <em>Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists</em> (Penguin Press), an NPR Best Book of 2012.
Joshua Eaton
Joshua Eaton is an independent journalist who covers religion and society, human rights and national security. His website is <a href="https://www.joshuaeaton.net">www.joshuaeaton.net</a>.
Joan Sutherland
Joan Sutherland, Roshi, is a founder of the Pacific Zen School (a contemporary koan school), as well as the founding teacher of The Open Source, a network that includes sanghas in Colorado, Arizona, and the Bay Area. Now retired from working directly with students, her teachings continue through <a href="http://joansutherlanddharmaworks.org/">Cloud Dragon</a>, an online source for her writings and talks. She is the author of <em>Vimalakirti & the Awakened Heart</em> and <em>Acequias and Gates: Miscellaneous Writings on Miscellaneous Koans</em>.
Ajahn Amaro
Ajahn Amaro is the abbot of Amaravati Buddhist monastery in southeast England. he was ordained as a bhikkhu by Ajahn Chah in 1979 and was the founding co-abbot of Abhayagiri Buddhist monastery in redwood Valley, California, where he served until 2010.
Roger R. Jackson
Roger Jackson is professor emeritus of Asian studies and religion at Carleton College and a visiting professor of Buddhism at Maitripa College. His research interests include Indian and Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, meditation, and ritual; Buddhist religious poetry; and modern Buddhist thought. Trained by Geshe Sopa in Madison, he is a long-time practitioner and a scholar of Mahamudra; his most recent book, <i>Mind Seeing Mind</i>, is a study of Mahamudra in the Geluk tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
Michael Sheehy
Michael Sheehy, PhD is a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism and contemplative studies. He is the director of scholarship at the Contemplative Sciences Center and faculty in religious studies at the University of Virginia.
Karl Brunnhölzl
Karl Brunnhölzl is a senior teacher in the Nalandabodhi community of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche and was recently bestowed the title of khenpo. He is the author and translator of numerous texts, including <em>Luminous Heart, Gone Beyond</em>, <em>Groundless Paths</em> and, <em>The Heart Attack Sutra, </em>which was published by Snow Lion, 2012.
Margaret Wheatley
Margaret Wheatley is the author of Leadership and the New Science and co-author of A Simpler Way. She is the president of the Berkana Institute, a non-profit foundation supporting the discovery of new organizational forms.
Venerable Khandro Rinpoche
The Ven. Khandro Rinpoche is one of the most prominent women teachers in Tibetan Buddhism. She is a holder of the Kagyü and Nyingma lineages of vajrayana Buddhism; her root teachers are the late Sixteenth Karmapa, the late Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, and her father, Mindrolling Tichen Rinpoche. Fluent in English, Khandro Rinpoche teaches regularly in North America and Europe.
Cristina Moon
Cristina Moon is a Buddhist priest, writer, and strategist who helps others develop the sensitivity and strength needed to stay calm amid chaos. Previously, she had a global career in human rights and social change, and graduated from business school at Stanford. For more information, please visit <a href="http://www.cristinamoon.com">www.cristinamoon.com</a>.
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>.