Archives: Authors
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.
Seung Sahn
Seung Sahn was the first Korean Zen master to live and teach in the West. He was founding teacher of the Kwan Um School of Zen, an international organization of more than one hundred centers and groups. Seung Sahn died in 2005.
Barbara Graham
Barbara Graham has written for the <em>Utne Reader</em>, <em>Vogue</em>, <em>Self</em>, <em>Common Boundary</em> and other publications. She is the author of the satire <em>Women Who Run with the Poodles</em>.
Sayadaw U Pandita
Sayadaw U Pandita Bhivamsa is the founder and abbot of Panditarama Meditation Center in Yangon, Myanmar.
Lewis Richmond
Lewis Richmond is a Zen teacher and author of <em>Aging as a Spiritual Practice</em>. His new book is <em>Every Breath, New Chances: How to Age with Honor and Dignity, a Guide for Men</em>.
Tulku Thondup Rinpoche
Tulku Thondup Rinpoche was born in eastern Tibet, where, as a young boy, he was recognized as a reincarnated Buddhist master. In 1958, he fled the Communist Chinese invasion and settled in India, teaching university-level Tibetan and Tibetan literature. In 1980, Tulku Thondup was invited to Harvard as a visiting scholar. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he translates and writes on Tibetan Buddhism. His most recent book is <em>Peaceful Death, Joyful Rebirth</em>.
Joseph Goldstein
Joseph Goldstein is a cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, where he is one of the resident guiding teachers. He is the author of several books, including <em>One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism</em>.
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, known affectionately as “Bhante G,” was ordained as a Buddhist at age twelve in his native Sri Lanka. In 1968 he was invited to the United States to serve as general secretary of the Buddhist Vihara Society in Washington D.C., where he received his Ph.D. in philosophy from The American University. He is the founder of the Bhavana Society and abbot of its monastery in the Shenandoah Valley. He is the author of <em>Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness</em> and <em>Mindfulness in Plain English</em>.
Traleg Rinpoche
The Venerable Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche (1955–2012) was president and director of the Kagyu E-Vam Buddhist Institute in Melbourne, Australia and established the E-Vam Institute in upstate New York. He is the author of <em>The Essence of Buddhism: An Introduction to Its Philosophy and Practice</em>.
Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg is a well-known teacher of Insight Meditation and mindfulness. She is co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, and the author of several books including Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection, and her latest, Real Change: Mindfulness To Heal Ourselves and the World.
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Thanissaro Bhikkhu is a monk in the Thai Forest Tradition. After moving to Thailand and studying under the forest master Ajaan Fuang Jotiko for ten years, he returned to the US and cofounded the Metta Forest Monastery in San Diego County, California, where he serves as abbot. The translator of numerous suttas and classical texts, his most recent book is <em>Four Noble Truths</em>. His books and many of his other teachings and translations can be found online at dhammatalks.org.
Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche
Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche is the abbot of Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling monastery in Kathmandu. Eldest son of the late Dzogchen master Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, he also teaches annually at Rangjung Yeshe Gomde, his retreat center in northern California.