Archives: Authors

Rebecca Li

Rebecca Li, PhD, is the founder and guiding teacher of Chan Dharma Community and the author of Illumination: A Guide to the Buddhist Method of No-Method.

Nadia Colburn is an OI Aspirant in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village Tradition, a coach and creative writer. She holds a PhD in English from Columbia University, is a founding editor at Anchor Magazine: where spirituality and social justice meet, and has been published widely in such places as The New Yorker, Yes! Magazine, and LA Review of Books. Her coaching business, AlignYourLight, helps clients and groups live with alignment, integrity and fullness from their deepest knowing in a culture so often out of alignment and full of contradictions. See more at <a href="http://www.nadiacolburn.com">www.nadiacolburn.com</a>.

Vince Fakhoury Horn

Vincent Horn is a cofounder of Buddhist Geeks, which asks, "How can we serve the convergence of Buddhism with rapidly evolving technology and an increasingly global culture?"

Michael Stroud

Michael Stroud is a freelance writer living in southern California. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Asian Wall Street Journal, and other publications.

Russell Evans

Russell Evans is the director of Transition Lab, a school that teaches people realistic ways to take radical steps toward creating a more just, fun, and beautiful world. Transition Lab powers this work by meeting basic needs through relationships rather than money. Its students develop ways of living that allow them to use their gifts to create better livelihoods for a new economy.

Jim Lowrey

Jim Lowrey was an early student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, who, with the rest of his Pygmy hippie family, went to Trungpa Rinpoche’s first public talk in Colorado in 1970 and connected with him immediately. As part of the early baby boom generation, Jim considers himself "emblematic of the sixties generation of war protesters, college dropouts, and hippies, who matured as the American born-again organic, locally grown, free-run middle class."

Cindy Littlefair

Cindy Littlefair has been on staff at Lion’s Roar for sixteen years. She has her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of King’s College.

Caroline Contillo

Since completing the Dharma Immersion Program at the Interdependence Project in 2011, Caroline Contillo has been interested in using the lenses of mindfulness, improv comedy, direct action, and science fiction to see how we might co-create a just and joyous world. She teaches meditation at MNDFL, a new studio in Lower Manhattan. She lives in Queens, and invites you to check out her personal site <a href="http://spacecrone.com/">spacecrone.com</a> or follow her on twitter, <a href="http://twitter.com/spacecrone">@spacecrone</a>.

Krissy Pozatek

Krissy Pozatek, LCSW, is the author of Brave Parenting: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Raising Emotionally Resilient Children (Wisdom Publications).

Iain McGlashan

Dave Smith

Dave Smith is a GenX dharma teacher whose work focuses on uncovering a dharma path found within the early Buddhist tradition.

Tenku Ruff

Tenku Ruff, Osho, is a Soto Zen priest who trained in Japan. She is a professional chaplain living in New York and holds a Master of Divinity from Maitripa College.

Nina La Rosa

Nina la Rosa teaches mindfulness-based psychotherapy and mindfulness at Exquisite Mind in Burlington, Vermont. She is a student of Shinzen Young.

Lama Rod Owens

Lama Rod Owens is a Buddhist minister, author, activist, yoga instructor and authorized Lama, or Buddhist teacher, in the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism and is considered one of the leaders of his generation of Buddhist teachers. He holds a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School and is a co-author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation. Owens is the co-founder of Bhumisparsha, a Buddhist tantric practice and study community. Has been published in Buddhadharma, Lion’s Roar, Tricycle and The Harvard Divinity Bulletin, and offers talks, retreats and workshops in more than seven countries.

Matthew Bortolin

Matthew Bortolin has camped out for tickets to all the Star Wars movies, and a set of Jedi robes hangs in his closet. He is an ordained member of Thich Nhat Hanh’s Order of Interbeing, and has lived in Buddhist monasteries both in the United States and abroad. He lives in Ventura, California.

Josh Bartok

Josh Bartok (Keido Mu'nen) is the abbot (head teacher and spiritual director) at the Greater Boston Zen Center. He is a Dharma heir of James Ishmael Ford Roshi in both of the roshi's lineages: the ordained Soto Zen lineage of Jiyu Kennett, and the koan introspection lineage of John Tarrant.

Megan Rundel

Megan Rundel is the resident teacher at the Crimson Gate Meditation Community in Oakland, California.

Jenny Phillips

Jenny Phillips is the director and producer of the documentary film, The Dhamma Brothers, about the impact of vipassana meditation courses on the lives of inmates in a maximum-security prison in Alabama.

Thinley Norbu Rinpoche

Thinley Norbu Rinpoche (1931-2011) was an important modern teacher in the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. He was the eldest son of Dudjom Rinpoche, the former head of the Nyingma school, and also the father of Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche and Dungse Garab Rinpoche. Thinley Norbu Rinpoche was considered to be an emanation of the 14th-century Nyingma master Longchempa. He wrote many books including A Cascading Waterfall of Nectar , White Sail, and The Small Golden Key .

Samuel Bercholz

Samuel Bercholz is the founder and editor-in-chief of Shambhala Publications. He studied with Thinley Norbu Rinpoche for more than two decades, and has been teaching Buddhism and the Shambhala teachings for nearly four decades.