Archives: Authors
Don Farber
Don Farber is best known for his widely seen photographs of the Dalai Lama. In 1997, he received a Fulbright Scholarship to research and photograph Tibetan Buddhist life in India and Nepal.
Eric Holm
Dorje Loppön Eric Holm, a close student of the Vidyadhara Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, was apppointed by him to oversee practice and study at Vajradhatu centers from 1976 until 1991. As Dorje Loppön he was responsible for the hinayana, mahayana, and especially vajrayana training of students. As well as teaching dharma and Shambhala Training programs, he currently works as a technical lead in a software company.
Roshi Eve Myonen Marko
Roshi Eve Myonen Marko is a founding teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order and Executive Director of the Peacemaker Community Foundation.
Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche
Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche (1904-1987) was supreme head of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. Charged by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 1959 with leading the Nyingma sect in exile and ensuring the preservation of its ancient tradition, he was a Dzogchen teacher to many important lamas, including the Dalai Lama himself, and played a major role in the transmission of vajrayana Buddhism to the West.
Chris Stewart-Patterson
Chris Stewart-Patterson, M.D. is assistant professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia and works as an emergency department physician at an inner city hospital in Vancouver.
Samuel Fromartz
Samuel Fromartz is a freelance writer based in Washington, D.C., and a participant in the Capitol Hill Mindfulness Community.
Mark Epstein
Mark Epstein, M.D. is author of <i>Thoughts Without a Thinker</i> and <i>Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart</i>.
Will Johnson
Will Johnson has been a Buddhist practitioner since 1972 and a certified rolfer since 1976. He is author of <i>The Posture of Meditation</i> and <i>Aligned, Relaxed, Resilient: The Physical Foundations of Mindfulness.</i>
Robert Hirshfield
Robert Hirschfield is a social worker in New York and a freelance writer whose work has appeared in a number of spiritually-oriented magazines.
Daigaku Rummé
Daigaku Rummé was ordained a Soto monk in 1978 by Harada Sekkei Roshi. He currently works at the Soto Zen Buddhism International Center in San Francisco.
Steven Heine
Steven Heine is director of the Asian Studies Program at Florida International University. He has published numerous books on the life and thought of Dogen, including the forthcoming <a href="https://www.shambhala.com/dogen.html"><em>Dogen: Japan’s Original Zen Teacher</em></a> (Shambhala).
Ajahn Munindo
Ajahn Munindo is the abbot of Aruna Ratanigiri Buddhist monastery in Harnham, England. He was ordained by Ajahn Chah in 1975.
Hoko Jan Karnegis
Hoko Jan Karnegis was ordained by Shohaku Okumura in 2005. She is the director of his sangha, the Sanshin Zen community.
Diane Eshin Rizzetto
Diane Eshin Rizzetto is the abbess of the bay Zen center in Oakland, California. and is the author of <i>Waking Up to What You Do: a Zen Practice for Meeting Every Situation with Intelligence and Compassion </i>(Shambhala Publications).