Archives: Authors
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (1920–1996) spent thirty-three years at Nagi Gompa Hermitage—twenty of those in retreat—and established six retreat centers and monasteries in Nepal, including Tergar Osel Ling Monastery in Kathmandu. He was recognized as the reincarnation of both the Chowang Tulku and Nubchen Sangye Yeshe (one of Padmasambhava’s principal students). His teachings have been published in the two-volume <i>As It Is</i> and in the new <i>Vajra Heart Revisited</i>, published this year to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of his birth.
Kobai Scott Whitney
Kobai Scott Whitney is a freelance writer in Honolulu, and a student of Robert Aitken-roshi. He practiced at the San Francisco Zen Center throughout the 1970's.
Ösel Tendzin
OSEL TENDZIN (Thomas F. Rich) was Vajra Regent and dharma heir of the Vidyadhara Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. As such, he was the first American accepted as a lineage holder of the Kagyu tradition of vajrayana Buddhism. Osel Tendzin was co-founder of Shambhala Training and author of Buddha in the Palm of Your Hand. Following Trungpa Rinpoche's death in 1987, he was President of Vajradhatu and the Nalanda Foundation until his own death in 1990.
Ajahn Chah
Ajahn Chah trained in the Theravada practices of Buddhist meditation under Ajahn Mun, the greatest master of the Thai and Laotian forest tradition in many centuries, and lived the life of a simple forest monk for more than seventy years. His startling wisdom and simplicity attracted many western disciples, and in Thailand, more than a hundred forest monasteries grew up under his guidance.
Kiyonobu Joshin Kuwahara
Reverend Kiyonobu Joshin Kuwahara is a Jodo Shinshu priest and serves as a codirector of the Buddhist Churches of America Center for Buddhist Education.
Heather Wardle
Heather Wardle is a writer at Lion’s Roar and the editor of <em>The Power of Compassion</em> by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Claude Anshin Thomas
Vietnam Veteran Claude Anshin Thomas is a Zen Monk and a member of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. He is the author of "At Hell's Gate: A Soldier's Journey from War to Peace" and founder of the Zaltho Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending violence.
Richard K. Payne
Richard K. Payne finished his training and received ordination as a Shingon priest in 1982. He currently serves as the dean of the Institute of Buddhist Studies, which is affiliated with the Graduate Theological Union and with Ryukoku University in Kyoto. He is the author of Tantric Buddhism in East Asia (Wisdom Publications).
Ayya Khema
Ayya Khema, born Ilse Ledermann in Berlin in 1923, was a pioneering Buddhist nun in the Theravada tradition from her ordination in 1979 to her death in 1997. The author of more than two dozen books, she established Buddhist centers in Australia, Sri Lanka and Germany, and was instrumental in the creation of Sakyadhita, a worldwide Buddhist women's organization.
Ajahn Brahmavamso
Ajahn Brahmavamso was born in London in 1951. After completing a degree in theoretical physics and teaching for a year, he traveled to Thailand to become a monk. He was ordained at age 23 and he spent the next nine years studying and training in the forest meditation tradition under Venerable Ajahn Chah. In 1983, he was asked to assist in establishing a forest monastery near Perth, Western Australia. Ajahn Brahm is now the abbot of Bodhinyana Monastery and the spiritual director of the Buddhist Society of Western Australia.
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Bhante Bodhidhamma is a British Theravadin monk trained in the tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw. He is a former resident teacher of Gaia House Meditation Centre in Devon, England, and currently the spiritual director of Satipanya Buddhist Trust, which is in the process of raising funds to set up a Mahasi meditation center in Wales.