Archives: Authors

Colin Beavan

Colin Beavan is a life coach, author and senior dharma teacher in the Kwan Um School of Zen.

Yurie Takeuchi

Yurie Takeuchi is an undergraduate student at Columbia University majoring in Political Science, with a minor in East Asian studies.

Dungse Jampal Norbu

Dungse Jampal Norbu is a teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and dharma heir to Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche.

Setsuan Gaelyn Godwin

Setsuan Gaelyn Godwin is abbot of the Houston Zen Center.

Jiryu Mark Rutschman-Byler is a Soto Zen Buddhist priest and teacher in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, with Dharma Transmission from Sojun Mel Weitsman. He lives and teaches at <a href="http://www.sfzc.org/">Green Gulch Farm Zen Center </a>and is mentor and preceptor to the <a href="http://montanadesilencio.org/">Montaña de Silencio</a> Sangha in Medellín, Colombia. For many years he served as the head teacher of the <a href="http://www.sqzen.org/">Buddhadharma Sangha of San Quentin State Prison</a>. He currently serves as Abiding Abbot of Green Gulch Farm and co-Abbot of San Francisco Zen Center. Jiryu holds a Master’s Degree in Asian Studies from UC Berkeley (2014), where he worked under the mentorship of the <a href="http://buddhiststudies.berkeley.edu/">Group in Buddhist Studies</a> on Buddhist texts in classical Chinese and modern Japanese. He is the author of the book <a href="https://nozeninthewest.com/two-shores-of-zen-the-book/">Two Shores of Zen</a> about his experiences in 2002-2004 as an American-trained monk practicing in Japanese Zen monasteries.

Olivier Adam

Olivier Adam is a freelance photographer and a teacher of photography in Paris. He has been documenting the rich and luminous world of Buddhist nuns since 2008. His photographs focus on the spiritual path and the strength of Tibetan nuns. His pictures are regularly published in English and French magazines, and he also regularly works for the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and His Holiness Karmapa, taking pictures during the Dalai Lama’s European travels. Olivier and Dominique help many charity projects that support Himalayan nuns. You can see some of Olivier's work here: <a href="http://www.olivieradam.net/">www.olivieradam.net</a> and support Himalayan nuns in buying Fine Art prints here: <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/DaughtersofBuddha">www.daughtersofbuddha.etsy.com</a>

Shane Bill

Alexander Gardner

Alexander Gardner is executive director of The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation and director and chief editor of Treasury of Lives, an online bibliographic encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalaya.

Lina Blanchet

Lina Blanchet is a secondary school teacher and a student of Buddhism. She is currently pursuing a Master’s in Mindfulness for Educators at Antioch University, New England and is a member of the Buddhist Sangha of Bucks County in Pennsylvania.

Bhante Suddhaso

Bhante Suddhaso is a Buddhist monk in the Thai Forest Tradition. He lives in New York City.

Bonnie Nadzam

Bonnie Nadzam’s most recent novel is Lions. She’s a student in the White Plum Asanga and the mother of twin boys.

Heather Lyn Mann

Spiritual Ecologist Heather Lyn Mann is the author of Ocean of Insight: A Sailor's Voyage from Despair to Hope.

Judy Roitman

Judy Roitman (Zen Master Bon Hae) began practicing Zen in 1976 with Zen Master Seung Sahn at the Cambridge Zen Center. Two years later, she helped found the Kansas Zen Center with, among others, her husband Stan Lombardo. She was granted authorization as a teacher (inka) in the Kwan Um School of Zen in 1998 and received dharma transmission in 2013. She has also had a long and distinguished career as a professor of mathematics (although now retired from academic life) and as a poet.

Funie Hsu

Funie Hsu, PhD, works as an assistant professor of American Studies at San Jose State University.

Pablo Das

Pablo Das is a Buddhist teacher, musician, amateur queer historian and a practitioner of somatic experiencing. He has a one-on-one coaching practice specializing in integrating Buddhist practice and principles in the resolution of trauma. He lives in Los Angeles.

Donna Rockwell

Donna Rockwell is a psychotherapist and meditation teacher living in Detroit.

Katie Letheren

Katie Letheren is a Buddhist American international aid worker currently working in the global health field in Liberia, West Africa. Born and raised in Manchester, New Hampshire, Katie attended New York University for her undergraduate degree in Political Science with a strong focus in journalism and the Middle East, and later attended Harvard School of Public Health’s Global Health Delivery Intensive program. Since then she has been bopping around the world with a cause - always letting the world’s events and the suffering it causes, no matter how painful it can be, soften her heart despite how badly it seems to want to harden it.

Carla Beharry

Carla is a devoted practitioner & teacher of mindfulness, meditation, yoga, and pranayama breath work. She passionately works both in Canada and the Caribbean, where she facilitates women’s empowerment workshops. Find her at <a href="http://www.infiniteoceans.com">infiniteoceans.com</a> for training and support in rebuilding after trauma.

Charles G. Lief

Charles G. Lief is the president of Naropa University. For ten years he was the president of the Greyston Foundation in Yonkers, New York.

Richard Reoch

Richard Reoch is the former President of Shambhala. He <a href="http://richardreoch.info/">took part in the international interfaith mission</a> of witness to the Rohingya refugee camp on the Bangladesh–Myanmar border from March 26-30, 2018.