Archives: Authors

Doshin Nathan Woods

Doshin Nathan Woods is a novice Zen priest at Sweetwater Zen Center. He holds a PhD in cultural anthropology and teaches at the University of the West in Rosemead, California.

Lorena Hillman

Lorena Hillman is a family practice physician in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Bruce Victor

Bruce Victor is in the psychiatry department at the University of California at San Francisco an also in private practice in San Francisco.

Robin Bitner

Robin Bitner is in the psychiatry department at the University of California at San Francisco.

Roger Walsh is professor of psychiatry at the University of California at Irvine, as well as author of Essential Spirituality: The Seven Central Practices and The World of Shamanism, and coeditor of Higher Wisdom: Eminent Elders Explore the Continuing Impact of Psychedelics.

Daniel Scharpenburg

Daniel Scharpenburg lives in Kansas City with two kids and two cats. He runs the Monday Night Zen Group at the Rime Buddhist Center. Daniel has a BA in English from KU and he works for the federal government. Once a novice monk in the Rinzai Tradition, he dropped out of monk school to become a regular person. He has taken his inspiration mainly from Zen renegades and madmen like Ikkyu and Han Shan. He is a frequent guest teacher on Daily Dharma Gathering.

Myokei Caine-Barrett

Myokei Caine-Barrett, Shonin, was the first American woman and the first person of African Japanese descent to receive full ordination as a Nichiren priest. Today, she is the bishop of the Nichiren Shu Buddhist Order of North America. Based in Houston, where she is the guiding teacher of Myoken-ji Temple, she also leads two prison sanghas and has been active in Healing Warrior Hearts (a program for veterans returning home) and The Gathering: Buddhist Teachers of Black African Descent.

Cheryl Wilfong

Cheryl Wilfong is the author of The Meditative Gardener: Cultivating Mindfulness of Body, Feelings, and Mind.

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Alex Cline

A native of Los Angeles, drummer-percussionist-composer Alex Cline has been a mainstay on the creative music scene in that city for almost forty years. He has released seven albums under his own name as well as many more collaborative projects. He is ordained in the Plum Village lineage of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.

Regina Valdez

Regina Valdez is a freelance writer, Engaged Buddhist, and outreach coordinator for Buddhist Global Relief and Compassion NYC. A recent graduate of One Earth Sangha's EcoSattva Training Program, she organized the Triple Gem Rolling Retreat for those wishing to attend the Peoples Climate March in Washington, DC.

Ray Buckner

Ray Buckner is a PhD Student in Religious Studies at Northwestern University. His research examines sexual violence in American Buddhism and transgender experiences with Buddhism in the United States. Ray's article, “Buddhist Teachers’ Responses to Sexual Violence: Epistemological Violence in American Buddhism” (2020), was published in The Journal of Global Buddhism. Ray's article, “Zen in Distress: Theorizing Gender Dysphoria and Traumatic Remembrance within Sōtō Zen Meditation” (2020), was published in Religions.

Peter Aronson

Peter Aronson is a freelance journalist and former NPR contributor currently living in Dharamsala. In addition to his writing, he is attending courses in Buddhism at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives.

Ajahn Buddhadasa

Ajahn Buddhadasa (1906–93) was one of Thailand's most influential Buddhist teachers. In 1932 he founded Suan Mokkhablarama, the first modern forest monastery in Thailand. His work would eventually inspire a new generation of socially concerned individuals both in Thailand and throughout the world.

Valerie Mason-John

Valerie Mason-John is a senior teacher in the Triratna Order and author of Detox Your Heart: Meditations for Emotional Trauma.

Charles Suhor

Charles Suhor, a retired educator, convenes a sangha at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Montgomery, Alabama. His writings have appeared in Inquiring Mind, Mindfulness Bell, Teaching Tolerance, and Religion and Public Education.

Jeremy Mohler

Jeremy Mohler is a political writer and meditation teacher based in Washington, D.C. He writes at <a href="http://jeremymohler.blog/" rel="noopener">jeremymohler.blog</a> and produces a weekly podcast, Meditation for the 99%.

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Kaitlyn Hatch

Kaitlyn Hatch is a student of Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel and a self-declared student of Ani Pema Chodron. A creative polymath, she is an artist, writer and host of the podcast Everything is Workable.

Barbara O’Brien

Barbara Hoetsu O’Brien is a longtime student of Soto Zen and author of The Circle of the Way: A Concise History of Zen from the Buddha to the Modern World and Rethinking Religion: Finding a Place for Religion in a Modern, Tolerant, Progressive, Peaceful and Science-Affirming World. She is also a volunteer editor for Treasure the Road, a new online magazine devoted to formal Zen practice and Buddhist study.