Archives: Authors
Allison Choying Zangmo
Allison Choying Zangmo has, with Anyen Rinpoche, coauthored five books, including Dying with Confidence and The Tibetan Yoga of Breath.
Pamela Ayo Yetunde
Pamela Ayo Yetunde is an associate editor at Lion's Roar and the author of <em><a href="https://www.shambhala.com/casting-indras-net.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Casting Indra's Net: Fostering Spiritual Kinship and Community</a>.</em> She is the co-editor of <em><a href="https://www.shambhala.com/black-and-buddhist.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us About Race, Resilience, Transformation and Freedom</a></em> and has written other books and articles about being Black and Buddhist. Ayo is a pastoral counselor and is the founder of Marabella StoryCraft (<a href="https://www.pamelaayoyetunde.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.pamelaayoyetunde.com</a>).
Brother Phap Hai
Originally from Australia, Brother Phap Hai is a senior student of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh. Prior to becoming a monk, he trained as a chef. Brother Phap Hai is known for his ability to convey complex teachings in an accessible and humorous manner and leads retreats and workshops throughout the United States, Canada, South America, Australia, and Asia. He currently resides at Deer Park Monastery, in California, where he breathes, walks, and smiles on a regular basis. He is the author of <i>Nothing to It: Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself</i>.
Minal Hajratwala
Minal Hajratwala's latest book is <i>Bountiful Instructions for Enlightenment</i>, published by The Great Indian Poetry Collective.
Kate Johnson
Kate Johnson teaches classes and retreats integrating Buddhist meditation, somatics, social justice, and creativity at leading meditation centers, universities and cultural institutions around the country. Kate also works as a culture change consultant, partnering with organizations to help them achieve greater diversity and sustainability. She's a graduate of Spirit Rock Meditation Center's four year teacher training, as well an utterly unprofessional dancer and performer who earned a BFA in Dance from The Alvin Ailey School/Fordham University and an MA in Performance Studies from NYU. For more information, please visit www.katejohnson.com
Rev. angel Kyodo williams
Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Sensei, peers at society, change, love, and justice through the lens of dharma. She sees liberation there. She is the author of <i>Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living With Fearlessness and Grace</i>, and co-author, with Lama Rod Owens and Jasmine Syedullah Ph.D., of <i>Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation.</i>
Lilian Cheung
Dr. Lilian Cheung is a Lecturer, Director of Health Promotion & Communication, and Editorial Director of The Nutrition Source website at the Harvard School of Public Health’s Department of Nutrition.
Esther Brandon
Esther Brandon has practiced yoga and mindfulness meditation for 35 years. After retiring from Lesley University in 2012, Esther completed the Yoga 4 Classrooms® Licensure Program for Trainers, and she is in training to become a CARE (Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education) facilitator. She has begun presenting an introduction to CARE for the Yoga 4 Classrooms IMPLEMENT™ Leader Training program focused on empowering schools to use teaming and in-school leaders to sustainably integrate yoga and mindfulness school wide.
Laura Munson
Laura Munson is the author of This Is Not the Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness.
Michael O’Keefe
Michael O'Keefe is a Golden Globe- and Academy Award-nominated actor. He's appeared in the films Eye In the Sky, Michael Clayton, Frozen River, The Pledge, Ironweed, The Great Santini, and Caddyshack. Television audiences will recognize him as CIA Agent John Redmond on Homeland. His writing has appeared in BOMB, Mindful, and other magazines. A practitioner of Zen for almost thirty years, he is a Dharma Holder in the Zen Peacemaker Order.
Krista Tippett
Krista Tippett is the creator of the public radio show and podcast On Being, a National Humanities medalist, and the author of the forthcoming book Becoming Wise.
Evelyn C. White
Evelyn C. White lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and is the author of Alice Walker: A Life.
Ellen-Marie Silverman
A mindfulness meditation practitioner since 1996, Ellen-Marie Silverman has found mindfulness useful in resolving her long-standing stuttering problem. A speech pathologist, she described her experience in the book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-Stuttering-Eastern-Strategies-Greater/dp/1478385111/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1457120843&sr=1-1&keywords=mindfulness+%26+stuttering"><em>Mindfulness & Stuttering</em></a>, published in 2012. In 2016, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/winning-novel-Ellen-Marie-Silverman/dp/1519776268/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1457120968&sr=1-1&keywords=stuttering+lgbt"><em>winning</em></a>,” a young adult novel, the second in The Jason Trilogy she is writing, was published. The series portrays the effect of a stuttering problem on one person’s life from age 10 to age 50. Ellen-Marie Silverman, a poet, lives in the United States near the Lake Michigan shore.
Robert Langan
Robert Langan is a psychoanalyst and longtime Buddhist practitioner. He is the author of <em>Minding What Matters: Psychotherapy and the Buddha Within</em>.
Vidyamala Burch
Vidyamala was ordained into the Triratna Buddhist Order in 1995. She is cofounder of Breathworks, which offers training in mindfulness-based management of pain and illness.
Arunlikhati
Arunlikhati is a blogger at <a href="http://www.angryasianbuddhist.com/">Angry Asian Buddhist</a> and <a>Dharma Folk</a>.
Mahasi Sayadaw
Mahasi Sayadaw (1904–1982) was a Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk and meditation master. His style of practice had a significant influence on the teachings of Vipassana (Insight) meditation in the West and throughout Asia. This teaching is from his most famous work, Manual of Insight, forthcoming in May in a new translation from Wisdom Publications.
Annabella Pitkin
Annabella Pitkin is assistant professor of Buddhism and East Asian Religions at Lehigh University. She specializes in Tibetan Buddhism and Asian intellectual history.
Aura Glaser
Aura Glaser is an author, psychologist, photographer, and dharma coyote. After decades of deep immersion as student and teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, she is no longer affiliated with a particular tradition. Her website is <a href="https://www.auraglaser.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.auraglaser.com</a>.