Archives: Authors
Beata Grant
Beata Grant is a professor of Chinese and religious studies at Washington University in St. Louis and the author of Daughters of Emptiness: Poems of Chinese Buddhist Nuns (Wisdom Publications).
Miriam Levering
Miriam Levering is a professor of religious studies at the University of Tennessee. She has written scholarly articles on Miaozong, Miaodao, and Dogen’s encouragement of male students to take women as their teachers.
Theodore Roszak
Theodore Roszak, author of The Making of a Counter Culture, is a founder of the eco-psychology movement and a novelist. His current interest is the “eldering” of the baby boom generation and its political and cultural implications. Roszak is professor emeritus at California State University–East Bay.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Jon Kabat-Zinn is professor emeritus of medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School where he founded the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society and introduced the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course in 1979. He is the author of Full Catastrophe Living and Wherever You Go, There You Are.
Joseph Szostak
Joseph Szostak is a longtime Buddhist practitioner and freelance writer and photographer living in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Dr. Alejandro Chaoul
Dr. Alejandro Chaoul has studied and practiced in the Tibetan tradition for over 30 years with Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche, Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, and His Holiness Lungtok Tenpai Nyima. He has completed the seven-year training at Ligmincha International and holds a Ph.D. in Tibetan Religions from Rice University. Dr. Chaoul is the founding director of the Mind, Body, Spirit Institute at The Jung Center of Houston. For over twenty years, Dr. Chaoul has researched and taught mind-body techniques to help relieve stress and support wellbeing throughout the community, including at MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Integrative Medicine Program and other educational, health care, and nonprofit organizations. He teaches in English and in Spanish. He is the author of Tibetan Yoga for Health & Wellbeing, Tibetan Yoga: Magical Movements of Body, Breath, and Mind, and Chod Practice in the Bon Tradition, as well as has a course on Tibetan Yoga with Wisdom Academy. For more information on his books and courses, visit alechaoul.com
Sarah Siegel
Sarah Siegel is an ordained interfaith minister, recovered drug addict, and mother of three young children.
Born I (Ofosu Jones-Quartey)
Born I (Ofosu Jones-Quartey) is an Insight Meditation and mindfulness teacher, a recording artist, and a father of four. He lives with his family in the Washington, D.C. area.