Archives: Authors
Andy Ferguson
Andy Ferguson is the author of Zen’s Chinese Heritage: The Masters and Their Teachings and the reator of the “map of the zen ancestors,” a full color reference chart of 170 ancient zen teachers. He regularly leads zen sightseeing and practice tours to zen monasteries in china.
Stephen Mooney
Stephen Mooney is a poet who lives in London. He is part of the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre at the University of London and a member of the performative poetry group “London Under Construction.”
Taigen Dan Leighton
Taigen Dan Leighton is the Guiding Dharma Teacher at Ancient Dragon Zen Gate, Chicago and the author of <em>Faces of Compassion: Classic Bodhisattva Archetypes and Their Modern Expression</em>.
Gary Gach
Gary Gach has hosted Zen Mindfulness Fellowship for a dozen years at Aquatic Park, San Francisco. Author of <em>The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Buddhism, </em>and editor of <em>What Book!? Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop, </em>his current title is <em>Pause … Breathe … Smile</em>. His <a href="http://LinkTr.ee/GaryGach">links</a> and <a href="http://GaryGach.com">author page</a> are online.
Bodhin Kjolhede
Bodhin Kjolhede is abbot of the Rochester Zen Center and dharma successor to the late Roshi Philip Kapleau.
Gelek Rimpoche
Gelek Rimpoche (1939-2017) was the founder of Jewel Heart, a Tibetan Buddhist Center located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the author the bestselling <i>Good Life, Good Death. </i>
Gelek Rinpoche
Gelek Rinpoche is a lama in the Gelukpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He is the spiritual director of Jewel Heart, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which has chapters in the United States, Singapore, Malaysia, and The Netherlands. He is the author of Good Life, Good Death: Tibetan Wisdom on Reincarnation.
Martin Baumann
Martin Baumann is co-editor of Westward Dharma: Buddhism beyond Asia (University of California Press) and professor of religions at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland.
Chris Lemig
Chris Lemig is the author of The Narrow Way: A Memoir of Coming Out, Getting Clean and Finding Buddha.
Steven D. Goodman
Steven D. Goodman studied under the noted Buddhist scholar Herbert Guenther, receiving a PhD in Far Eastern Studies in 1984. He went on to be awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship at Rice University to study Tibetan mystical poetry. Today, he is the program director of Asian philosophies and cultures at California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco. His new book is <em>The Buddhist Psychology of Awakening</em>. He passed away on August 3, 2020.
John Baker
John Baker is a student of the late Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and was a co-founder and the first CEO of Naropa University. He co-edited Trungpa Rinpoche’s books Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism and The Myth of Freedom. Retired after twenty-three years in business, he teaches Buddhism and leads psychotherapy groups in New York City.
Karin Muller
Karin Muller is a filmmaker, photographer, and adventurer. She writes for National Geographic and Traveler magazines.
Eva Wong
Eva Wong is a lineage holder of the Hsüan-k'ung (Mysterious Subtleties) school of traditional Chinese feng shui, as well as a practitioner of the San-yüan (Three Periods) and San-ho (Three Combinations) schools. She is a translator and the author of a number of books on feng shui and Taoism, including Nourishing the Essence of Life: The Outer, Inner, and Secret Teachings of Taoism and A Master Course in Feng shui.
James Gimian
James Gimian has been studying and teaching the Sun Tzu text for over twenty-five years. He served as general editor for The Art of War: Denma Translation, published in 2001.
Gil Fronsdal
Gil Fronsdal is the founder and primary teacher of the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California, and is part of the Vipassana teachers’ collective at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center.