Archives: Authors
B. Alan Wallace
Dynamic lecturer, progressive scholar, and one of the most prolific writers and translators of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, B. Alan Wallace holds a doctorate in religious studies from Stanford University. He is founder and president of the <a href="https://sbinstitute.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies </a> and the <a href="https://centerforcontemplativeresearch.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Contemplative Research</a> .
Justin von Bujdoss
Lama Justin von Bujdoss is an American vajrayana Buddhist teacher, writer, and the is a co- founder of Bhumisparsha an experimental Buddhist sangha along with Lama Rod Owens and Yangti Yoga Retreat Center with Dr. Nida Chenagtsang. He is the author of Modern Tantric Buddhism: Authenticity and Embodiment in Dharma Practice published by North Atlantic Books. Justin was ordained as a repa, a lay tantric yogin in the tradition of Milarepa, by His Eminence Gyaltsab Rinpoche, one of the heart sons of His Holiness the 16 th Karmapa and is a ngakpa in the Yuthok Nyingthik lineage.
Gehlek Rinpoche
Gehlek Rinpoche (1939-2017) was born in Lhasa, Tibet. An incarnate lama, he studied at Drepung monastery, fleeing Tibet in 1959 during the Chinese invasion and emigrating to the West. He was founder and president of Jewel Heart in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and author of <i>Good Life, Good Death: Tibetan Wisdom on Reincarnation</i>.
Kazuaki Tanahashi
Kazuaki Tanahashi is a Zen teacher, author, and translator of Buddhist texts, most notably of works by Dogen. He is also an accomplished artist and has taught Zen calligraphy extensively in different parts of this world.
Julia Sommer
Julia Sommer is a freelance writer and a resident of the San Francisco Zen Center.
Mushim Patricia Ikeda
Mushim Ikeda is a social activist and teacher at East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland, California. She also works as a diversity and inclusion consultant.
Ruth King
Ruth King is an insight meditation teacher and emotional wisdom author and life coach. Mentored by Jack Kornfield in the Theravada tradition, and influenced by the Tibetan traditions of Buddhism, Ruth teaches at insight meditation communities nationwide. She is a guiding teacher at Insight Meditation Community of Washington and Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and the founder of Mindful Members Insight Meditation Community of Charlotte. Ruth is the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Emotional-Wisdom-Cards-Ruth-King/dp/0975425811/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525212056&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Emotional+Wisdom+Cards"><em>The Emotional Wisdom Cards</em></a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Rage-Women-Making-Possible/dp/1592404065/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525212030&sr=1-1&keywords=Healing+Rage%3A+Women+Making+Inner+Peace+Possible"><em>Healing Rage: Women Making Inner Peace Possible</em></a>, and her new book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mindful-Race-Transforming-Racism-Inside/dp/1683640810/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1525211980&sr=8-1&keywords=mindful+of+race"><em>Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out</em></a> (Sounds True, June 2018).
Joseph McElroy
Joseph McElroy is the author of eight novels, most recently Actress in the House (Overlook Press, 2003). His stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Art International, The New York Times Book Review, Conjunctions and other magazines.
Anushka Fernandopulle
Anushka Fernandopulle is a San Francisco-based Insight Meditation teacher and author of an upcoming book on mindfulness and leadership.
Caroline Douglas
Caroline Douglas has been working with clay for thirty years. She teaches classes and workshops in creative expression in Boulder, Colorado.
Roger-Pol Droit
Roger Pol-Droit is a researcher at the Centre de la Recherche Scientifique and a columnist for the French daily newspaper Le Monde.
Anne Klein
Anne C. Klein (Rigzin Drolma) is a professor in and former chair of the Department of Religion at Rice University, where she developed a contemplative studies concentration for graduate students. She is also a lama in the Nyingma tradition and a founding teacher at Dawn Mountain, a center for Tibetan Buddhism, where she teaches a variety of practices and texts, especially recently revealed (gter) practices from Adzom Paylo Rinpoche, whom she meet adventitiously in Tibet in 1996 and who named her a Dorje Lopon in 2009. She has studied and translated in three of Tibet’s five traditions. Her scholarly work encompasses both Tibetan texts and the learned oral commentary on them. Her books include Knowledge and Liberation (on Buddhist distinctions between intellectual knowing and direct experience), Path to the Middle: The Spoken Scholarship of Khensur Yeshe Thupten (on preparing to meet the ultimate), Meeting the Great Bliss Queen (contrasting Buddhist and feminist understandings of self), Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche’s Strand of Jewels (on essential Dzogchen teachings), and, with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Unbounded Wholeness (a translation and presentation of a Bön Dzogchen text) and Heart Essence of the Vast Expense (on the foundational practices and lineage of Jigme Lingpa, with chantable English translations). In all these endeavors her central theme is the embodied interaction between head and heart and the paths to wholeness found throughout Buddhist scholarly and contemplative traditions.
Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche
Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche is a teacher in the Karma Kagyü lineage. His main residence is his monastery in Boudhanath, Nepal. He is the founder of a monastic college at Namo Buddha near Kathmandu and of many Buddhist centers in the West and Asia.
Barry Magid
Barry Magid, MD, is a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. He is resident teacher at the Ordinary Mind Zendo in New York City and the author of Ordinary Mind: Exploring the Common Ground of Zen and Psychotherapy (Wisdom Publications).
Michael Liebenson Grady
Michael Liebenson Grady is a guiding teacher at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center who has been studying with Master Sheng-yen for the past five years.
Ajahn Thanasanti
Ajahn Thanasanti was a student of Ajahn Sumedho and received ordination in 1991 at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in Hemel Hempstead, England, where she currently resides.
Pamela White
Pamela White is a writer and translator living in central France, where she completed two three-year retreats under the guidance of Gendun Rinpoche.