Archives: Authors
Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche
Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche the abbot of Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, the North American seat of the Seventeeth Karmapa, located in Woodstock, New York.
Patton Dodd
Patton Dodd is an editor for Beliefnet and a doctoral candidate in religion and literature at Boston University. He is the author of My Faith So Far: A Story of Conversation and Confusion (Jossey-Bass). He lives with his family in Colorado.
Joseph Emet
Joseph Emet is a Buddhist teacher and author of Finding the Blue Sky: A Mindful Approach to Choosing Happiness Here and Now (TarcherPerigee).
Beata Grant
Beata Grant is a professor of Chinese and religious studies at Washington University in St. Louis and the author of Daughters of Emptiness: Poems of Chinese Buddhist Nuns (Wisdom Publications).
Miriam Levering
Miriam Levering is a professor of religious studies at the University of Tennessee. She has written scholarly articles on Miaozong, Miaodao, and Dogen’s encouragement of male students to take women as their teachers.
Theodore Roszak
Theodore Roszak, author of The Making of a Counter Culture, is a founder of the eco-psychology movement and a novelist. His current interest is the “eldering” of the baby boom generation and its political and cultural implications. Roszak is professor emeritus at California State University–East Bay.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Jon Kabat-Zinn is professor emeritus of medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School where he founded the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society and introduced the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course in 1979. He is the author of Full Catastrophe Living and Wherever You Go, There You Are.
Joseph Szostak
Joseph Szostak is a longtime Buddhist practitioner and freelance writer and photographer living in Halifax, Nova Scotia.