Archives: Authors

Irini Rockwell

Irini Rockwell is the author of The Five Wisdom Energies: A Buddhist Way of Understanding Personalities, Emotions and Relationships (Shambhala, 2002). She leads workshops on the buddha families throughout North America and Europe.

Sam Harris

Perry Garfinkel

Perry Garfinkel is the author of “Buddha or Bust: In Search of Truth, Meaning, Happiness and the Man Who Found Them All” (Three Rivers Press, 2007).

Sylvia Boorstein

Sylvia Boorstein is a psychologist and leading teacher of Insight Meditation. Her many best-selling books include Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake and Happiness Is An Inside Job.

John Malkin

John Malkin hosts a weekly radio program on Free Radio Santa Cruz, focusing on social change and spiritual growth.

Velcrow Ripper

Velcrow Ripper is an award winning, Canadian documentary filmmaker.

Robert Thurman

Robert Thurman is a professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, and President of Tibet House U.S.

Alan Clements

Alan Clements is founder of the Burma Project USA and an expert on the democracy movement in Burma. He lived in Burma for eight years, for much of that time as a Buddhist monk. He is the author of Burma: The Next Killing Fields? (1991), and co-author of the photographic book Burma’s Revolution of the Spirit (1991). He was an advisor on the film Beyond Rangoon and speaks frequently on Burma’s struggle for democracy. The Voice of Hope was published by Seven Stories Press.

bell hooks

<a href="/bell-hooks/">bell hooks</a> (1952-2021) described herself as a "Black woman intellectual, revolutionary activist." A leading cultural critic and thinker about such issues as feminism and race, bell hooks published more than 30 books, including All About Love: New Visions.

Sandy Boucher

Sandy Boucher is a writer, teacher and editor with forty years’ experience of Buddhism. She is the author of nine books, including Turning the Wheel, Hidden Spring, Dancing in the Dharma and She Appears!: Encounters with Kwan Yin Bodhisattva of Compassion. For information on her background, writing consultation and editing work see <a href="http://sandyboucher.info/">Sandyboucher.info</a>

Bonnie Myotai Treace

Bonnie Myotai Treace, Sensei, served for many years as vice-abbess of Zen Mountain Monastery and abbess of the Zen Center of New York City. In 2004, she founded Hermitage Heart, a Zen training program with a special emphasis on home practice. She lives and teaches in Black Mountain, North Carolina.

Rita M. Gross

Rita M. Gross is author of the influential book Buddhism After Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism and many other books and articles. She is a senior teacher under Khandro Rinpoche, and also studies with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.

Maezumi Roshi

Taizan Maezumi Roshi was a pivotal figure in the transmission of Zen Buddhism to the West. Ordained as a Zen monk at age 11, he moved to the United States from Japan in 1956. Maezumi Roshi was founder and abbot of the Zen Center of Los Angeles, and founded five other Soto Zen temples in the United States and Europe. He transmitted the dharma to twelve successors and established the White Plum Asanga to carry on his lineage.