Archives: Authors
Paul MacGowan
Paul MacGowan’s interest in meditation and Buddhism started as a teenager in the 1970s and his work in video production began in the mid-eighties. He met Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche in 2010 and was inspired by him to produce the film <em>A Joyful Mind</em> (2016), which gives an overview of Mingyur Rinpoche’s teachings on meditation. When Mingyur Rinpoche returned from his four-and-a-half-year wandering retreat in 2015, he told wonderful and inspiring stories that became the basis of the film <em>Wandering . . . But Not Lost</em>. Since its release in 2020, the film has won numerous awards, including Best Documentary and Best Biography Film.
Joe DaRocha
Joe DaRocha has his master’s in social work and has worked with traumatized families and children for over twenty-five years.
Anlor Davin
Anlor Davin is a Soto Zen priest. Her memoir, Being Seen, was published in 2016.
Pete Grella
Pete Grella is a Buddhist meditation teacher based in Los Angeles. He hosts a Neurodiverse Affinity Group with Insight LA called InTune.
Louise Woodford
Louise Woodford recently wrote an essay that was published in the book Autism and Buddhist Practice: How Buddhism Can Help Autistic Adults Cultivate Wellbeing, edited by Chris Jarrell.
Venerable Guan Cheng
Venerable Guan Cheng is the abbot of the International Buddhist Temple in British Columbia, Canada. He has published various books in Chinese, including <em>Commentary on the Heart Sutra</em> and <em>Commentary on the Diamond Sutra</em>.
Noelle Oxenhandler
Noelle Oxenhandler began Buddhist practice in 1970. Her essays have appeared in many national and literary journals, and she recently retired from teaching creative nonfiction at Sonoma State University in California.
Katherine Jamieson
Katherine Jamieson is a writer based in Western Massachusetts who corresponds with prisoners around the country as part of the National Buddhist Prison Sangha network. She has taught Contemplative Writing through Zen Mountain Monastery and the Nalanda Institute. <a href="http://www.katherinejamieson.com/">www.katherinejamieson.com</a>
Gary Donnelly
GARY DONNELLY is an academic advisor at the University of Manchester, and lectures in Indic Religious Traditions at Liverpool Hope University. He holds a PhD in Indian Philosophy, specializing in Theravada, Madhyamaka, Yogacara, and Vedanta traditions.
Lopen Karma Phuntsho
Lopen Karma Phuntsho completed his full monastic training before joining Oxford to pursue a DPhil in Oriental Studies. He has worked at Cambridge University, CNRS (Paris), the University of Virginia, and is a writer for the Buddha-Nature project of Tsadra Foundation. He teaches Buddhism and Bhutan studies and has written many books and articles. He is also the founder of the Loden Foundation, which promotes education and Buddhist entrepreneurship, and documents Buddhist texts and cultural traditions.
Marcus Perman
Marcus Perman is the executive director of Tsadra Foundation and organizer of the Translation & Transmission Conference Series. He has studied Buddhism and the Tibetan language in Tibet, India, Nepal, and at Naropa University and Nitartha Institute and now lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Heidi Nevin
Heidi Nevin is a Tibetan translator and practitioner in the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism. She grew up in Maryland and met the dharma as a teenager living in China. She apprenticed with Kyabje Chatral Rinpoche for six years and has devoted herself to dharma translation since 2003. She has published several works under the auspices of Tsadra Foundation and has recently joined the in-house team at Khyentse Vision Project to help translate the works of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo. Heidi lives in Oregon with her husband and two teenage children.
Qalvy Grainzvolt
Qalvy Grainzvolt is an ordained Shinnyo priest, a uniformed police chaplain, and a licensed mental health clinician.
Kokoyo Henkel
Since 1990, Kokoyo Henkel has been practicing in residence at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, where he is currently tanto (head of practice), No Abode Hermitage in Mill Valley, Bukkokuji Monastery in Japan, and Santa Cruz Zen Center. He was ordained as a Zen priest in 1994 by Tenshin Anderson Roshi and received dharma transmission from him in 2010.
Kevin Buckelew
Kevin Buckelew is assistant professor of religious studies at Northwestern University.
Megan Bryson
Megan Bryson is associate professor of religious studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Nuno Gonçalves
Nacido en Chile, Nuno Gonçalves es traductor y practicante de la tradición Sakya del Budismo Tibetano. Comenzó su entrenamiento en España el año 2004 bajo la tutela del Ven. Khenpo Thubten Nyima. Desde entonces ha recibido enseñanzas y transmisiones de Su Santidad Gongma Trichen Rinpoche, Do Tulku Rinpoche y Khenpo Kunzang, entre otros. En 2008 al ser autorizado para impartir enseñanzas, regresa a Chile y da inicio a las actividades del centro Sakya Do-Ngak Ling, las cuales mantuvo de forma continua hasta su cierre en agosto del 2020. Hoy se esfuerza constantemente por facilitar el acceso a las preciosas enseñanzas del Buddha en habla hispana por diversos medios, como lo son la traducción de textos y la conducción de enseñanzas centradas principalmente en el adiestramiento mental.
Rabjam Rinpoche
Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche is the grandson and spiritual heir of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, one of the foremost Tibetan Buddhist masters of the 20th century. Rinpoche began receiving teachings at the age of three from his revered grandfather and today holds his unbroken lineage. Rabjam Rinpoche is the spiritual head of the Shechen Monastery in Nepal and is dedicated to education (the Shechen School and the Shechen Institute. In response to the needs of women wanting to study and practice, he established two nunneries in Bhutan. Rabjam Rinpoche embodies the authentic Tibetan Buddhist tradition in combination with a modern view. He is the author of “The Great Medicine,” published by Shambhala Publications. He is teaching in the USA, Brazil, and Mexico this fall. For more about his teachings and projects go to <a href="http://www.shechen.org" rel="noopener">www.shechen.org</a>
Rev. Dr. Kenji Akahoshi
Rev. Dr. Kenji Akahoshi began his professional life as a dentist. He holds a Master's degree in transpersonal psychology and has conducted Buddhist retreats across California, Washington, and Hawaii since 1998. He also conducts workshops that offer a contemporary perspective of Shin Buddhism. Rev. Dr. Kenji Akahoshi recently retired from his role as resident minister at the Buddhist Temple of San Diego.
Francesco Celle
Francesco Celle es originario de Viña del Mar, Chile. Profesor de música, practica budismo tibetano en el linaje Drikung Kagyu desde el año 2011. Bajo la guía del venerable Khenpo Phuntsok Tenzin Rinpoche, también ha trabajado como director, instructor e intérprete en el centro de Dharma de su ciudad de origen. Actualmente se encuentra realizando el tradicional retiro de tres años del linaje Drikung Kagyu en el Centro de Retiros Milarepa en Schneverdingen, Alemania.