Archives: Authors
Guo Gu (Jimmy Yu)
Guo Gu is a Chan teacher and professor of Buddhism and East Asian religions at Florida State University. The founder and teacher of the Tallahassee Chan Center in Florida, he is the trainer of all Western dharma teachers in the Dharma Drum lineage of master Sheng Yen; in 2020, he also founded the socially engaged, intra-denominational Buddhist organization Dharma Relief. His books include <em>Essence of Chan</em> and <em>Silent Illumination</em> (2021).
Rod Meade Sperry
Rod Meade Sperry is the editor of <em>Buddhadharma</em>, Lion's Roar's online source for committed Buddhists, and the book <em>A Beginner’s Guide to Meditation: Practical Advice and Inspiration from Contemporary Buddhist Teachers</em>. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with his partner and their tiny pup, Sid.
Emily Horn
Emily West Horn is an authorized teacher of mindfulness and insight Meditation. She's been mentoring mindfulness teachers in a certification program led by Jack Kornfield, Ph.D and Tara Brach Ph.D for over 7 years and leads teacher development groups at MindfulnessTeachers.Space.
Andrew Schelling
Poet, translator and avid mountaineer, Andrew Schelling teaches at Naropa University. He is a longtime student of Zen. His translations of poetry from classical India are widely anthologized. Growing up in New England, Schelling was a frequent visitor to Fenway Park, home of the tragic Boston Red Sox. Recent titles include <em>Tea Shack Interior: New & Selected Poetry </em>and<em> Wild Form, Savage Grammar: Poetry, Ecology, Asia.</em>
Noah Levine
Noah Levine is the founder of the Against the Stream and Dharma Punx communities and the author of <em>Refuge Recovery: A Buddhist Path to Recovering from Addiction</em>, published by HarperOne, June 2014.
Douglas Phillips
Douglas Phillips is the founder and guiding teacher of Empty Sky Sangha in West Cornwall, Connecticut, and Lexington, Massachusetts, where he teaches both Zen and Vipassana. He is also a clinical psychologist in private practice.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is a meditation master in the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. He is the guiding teacher of the Tergar Meditation Community, a global network of meditation groups and centers. His books include <em>Turning Confusion into Clarity </em> and <em>In Love with the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying </em>.
Andrew Holecek
Andrew Holecek completed a traditional three-year retreat under the direction of Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche and is the author of <em>The Power and the Pain</em>, <em>Preparing to Die</em>, and <em>Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming</em>.
Konrad Ryushin Marchaj
Konrad Ryushin Marchaj is the abbot and resident teacher of Zen Mountain Monastery in Mount Tremper, New York. He received dharma transmission from John Daido Loori Roshi in 2009.
Ann Potter
Ann Potter has practiced meditation for more than twenty years. She lives in Venice, Florida.
Rory Lindsay
Rory Lindsay is an editor at 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha and a visiting scholar at UC Santa Barbara, where he lectures on Tibetan religions. He is also the Inner Asia area editor for the Religious Studies Review. He received his doctorate in Tibetan studies from Harvard University, and was Buddhadharma’s reviews editor from 2013–18. His new book, <em>Agency and the Afterlife in Tibetan Buddhism</em>, is forthcoming in 2021.
Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara
Pat Enkyo O’Hara, Roshi, is the founder of Village Zendo in New York City as well as a founding teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order, which began with the vision of Bernie Glassman, from whom she received dharma transmission. She holds a doctorate in media ecology and for many years taught new media technologies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is the author of <em>Most Intimate: A Zen Approach to Life’s Challenges</em>.
Edward Espe Brown
Edward Espe Brown is abbot of the Peaceful Sea Sangha based in northern California. For two decades he lived and worked at the various practice centers that comprise the San Francisco Zen Center. He is author of <em>The Complete Tassajara Cookbook</em> and editor of <em>Not Always So</em>, a book of lectures by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. His new book, <em>No Recipe: Cooking as Spiritual Practice</em>, will be released in May 2018.
Thubten Chodron
Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron is the founder and abbess of Sravasti Abbey in Newport, Washington, and the author of <em>Don’t Believe Everything You Think</em>. She was ordained as a Buddhist nun in 1977 and received full bhikshuni ordination in Taiwan in 1986.
Ross Bolleter Roshi
Ross Bolleter Roshi is a teacher in the Diamond sangha tradition and a dharma successor of Robert Aitken and John Tarrant. He is the senior teacher of Zen Group of Western Australia in Perth.
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Tsoknyi Rinpoche is a meditation master in the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism and son of the late Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. He teaches widely in the West and oversees nunneries and monasteries in Tibet and Nepal. His most recent book is <em>Open Heart, Open Mind</em>.
Kay Larson
Kay Larson is an art critic and the author of <em>Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists</em> (Penguin Press), an NPR Best Book of 2012.
Joshua Eaton
Joshua Eaton is an independent journalist who covers religion and society, human rights and national security. His website is <a href="https://www.joshuaeaton.net">www.joshuaeaton.net</a>.
