Archives: Authors

Toni Packer

Toni Packer (1927 – 2013) was a teacher of Meditative Inquiry and the founder of Springwater Center in New York. Packer was a former student in the Sanbo Kyodan lineage of Zen Buddhism.

Alexander Boldizar

Alexander Boldizar is a Slovak-born Canadian lawyer and writer who has lived throughout Asia, most recently in Nepal and Indonesia. He is author of the novel Flypaper Coils.

Joel Weishaus

Joel Weishaus is a poet, critic, and experimental writer in Portland, Oregon.

Roger Guest

Roger Guest was co- director of Karmê Chöling from 1980 to 1986 and is now director of the Boston Shambhala Meditation Center.

Dr. Charles Prebish is the author of Luminous Passage: The Practice and Study of Buddhism in America, and co-editor of The Faces of Buddhism in America. He held the Charles Redd Chair in Religious Studies at <a href="https://chass.usu.edu/history/directory/emeritus/charles-prebish" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Utah State University</a> from 2007 until 2010.

Don Farber

Don Farber is best known for his widely seen photographs of the Dalai Lama. In 1997, he received a Fulbright Scholarship to research and photograph Tibetan Buddhist life in India and Nepal.

Eric Holm

Dorje Loppön Eric Holm, a close student of the Vidyadhara Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, was apppointed by him to oversee practice and study at Vajradhatu centers from 1976 until 1991. As Dorje Loppön he was responsible for the hinayana, mahayana, and especially vajrayana training of students. As well as teaching dharma and Shambhala Training programs, he currently works as a technical lead in a software company.

Roshi Eve Myonen Marko

Roshi Eve Myonen Marko is a founding teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order and Executive Director of the Peacemaker Community Foundation.

Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche

Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche (1904-1987) was supreme head of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. Charged by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 1959 with leading the Nyingma sect in exile and ensuring the preservation of its ancient tradition, he was a Dzogchen teacher to many important lamas, including the Dalai Lama himself, and played a major role in the transmission of vajrayana Buddhism to the West.

Emily Bower

Chris Stewart-Patterson

Chris Stewart-Patterson, M.D. is assistant professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia and works as an emergency department physician at an inner city hospital in Vancouver.

John Kain

John Kain is a freelance writer and poet from New York.

Samuel Fromartz

Samuel Fromartz is a freelance writer based in Washington, D.C., and a participant in the Capitol Hill Mindfulness Community.

Mark Epstein

Mark Epstein, M.D. is author of Thoughts Without a Thinker and Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart.

Will Johnson

Will Johnson has been a Buddhist practitioner since 1972 and a certified rolfer since 1976. He is author of The Posture of Meditation and Aligned, Relaxed, Resilient: The Physical Foundations of Mindfulness.

Paul Maxwell

Paul Maxwell is a writer and editor in Berryville, Virginia.

Robert Hirshfield

Robert Hirschfield is a social worker in New York and a freelance writer whose work has appeared in a number of spiritually-oriented magazines.

Han F. de Wit

Daigaku Rummé

Daigaku Rummé was ordained a Soto monk in 1978 by Harada Sekkei Roshi. He currently works at the Soto Zen Buddhism International Center in San Francisco.

Steven Heine

Steven Heine is director of the Asian Studies Program at Florida International University. He has published numerous books on the life and thought of Dogen, including the forthcoming <a href="https://www.shambhala.com/dogen.html">Dogen: Japan’s Original Zen Teacher</a> (Shambhala).