Archives: Authors
Howard Axelrod
Howard Axelrod has written for The New York Times Magazine, Harvard Magazine, and The Boston Globe. He is also the author of a memoir, <i>The Point of Vanishing</i>, about the two years he lived in solitude in northern Vermont.
Dr. Chatsumarn Kabilsingh
Dr. Chatsumarn Kabil-Singh, chief Thai scholar for the Buddhist Perception of Nature Project, teaches religion and philosophy at Thammasat University, Bangkok. She is also the author of Study of Buddhist Nuns: Monastic Rules.
Aaron Huey
Aaron Huey is a freelance photographer whose recent journeys include a hitchhiking trip across Siberia sponsored by the National Geographic Expedition Council, coverage of the chaos in Pakistan after Benazir Bhutto's assassination for The New Yorker, and adventures in Hezbollah country for National Geographic Adventure. More on Aaron's work from Afghanistan can be found at www.aaronhuey.com.
Chip Hartranft
Chip Hartranft likes to explore the common ground of yoga and Buddhism. Founding director of The Arlington Center, he has taught yoga and mindfulness in the Boston area since 1980. Chip is the author of The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: A New Translation with Commentary.
Polly Young-Eisendrath
Polly Young-Eisendrath, PhD, is a psychologist, Jungian psychoanalyst, couple therapist, and the Executive Director of the Center for Real Dialogue. She has published (as author or editor) 19 books and has been a Buddhist practitioner for more than 40 years. She is a mindfulness teacher.
Christopher Queen
Christopher Queen is a lecturer on the study of religion at Harvard University and president of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. He is the author of Engaged Buddhism in the West and co-editor of Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia and Action Dharma: New Studies in Engaged Buddhism.
Amanda Palmer
Amanda Palmer is a singer, pianist, and composer for the "punk cabaret" duet The Dresden Dolls. She's been studying meditation since a wonderful neighbor turned her on to the practice at age fifteen, and she recently began training to teach yoga.