Archives: Authors
Denma Translation Group
The Denma Translation Group is led by James Gimian and Kidder Smith, director of the Asian Studies Program at Bowdoin College. The members all received training in a contemplative discipline created by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche called the Dorje Kasung, which draws on the practices of Tibetan Buddhism, the Shambhala vision of enlightened society, and some Western military forms.
Wing Shing Chan
Wing Shing Chan has studied closely with Master Sheng Yen and is a freelance writer on Chan Buddhism. He lives in Hong Kong.
Tyler Dewar
Tyler Dewar serves as an oral and textual translator for Nalandabodhi, an international network of Buddhist study and meditation centers, and for Nitartha Institute, an annual, month-long program of advanced Buddhist studies.
Seth Greenland
Seth Greenland is the author of three novels, including The Angry Buddhist, and was a writer-producer on the HBO series Big Love.
Bonnie Friedman
Bonnie Friedman is the author of "The Thief of Happiness" and "Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction, and Other Dilemmas in the Writer’s Life".
Ann Nichols
Ann Nichols has been a cellist, an attorney, a PTA president, and a ghostwriter. Currently, she’s writing a young adult novel with a Buddhist heroine and working as a professional cook.
Michael Wenger
Michael Wenger is the Dean of Buddhist Studies at the San Francisco Zen Center.
Charles Muller
Charles Muller teaches Buddhism at Toyo Gakuen University in Japan, and is the chief editor of the online Digital Dictionary of Buddhism.
Francesca Fremantle
Francesca Fremantle received her doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies at London University. She is a Buddhist teacher, scholar, and translator of Sanskrit and Tibetan works and was a student of Chögyam Trungpa starting in the late 1960s. Together with Trungpa Rinpoche, she translated <em>The Tibetan Book of the Dead</em>. She is also the author of <em>Luminous Emptiness: Understanding the Tibetan Book of the Dead</em>. She lives in London, England.
Chong Hae Sunim
Hae Sunim is abbot of the Providence Zen Center in Cumberland, Rhode Island.
Rev. Eijun Eidson
Rev. Eijun Eidson is a Shingon priest and headmaster of the Koyasan Shingon Tenchiji Temple in Fresno, California.
Ajahn Punnadhammo
Ajahn Punnadhammo is abbot of the Arrow River Forest Hermitage in northern Ontario.
Sarah Harding
Sarah Harding is a Tibetan translator and lama in the Kagyü school of Vajrayana Buddhism. She translated Jamgon Kongtrul's Creation and Completion (Wisdom Publications).
Shohaku Okumura
Shohaku Okumura was ordained as a Soto Zen priest in 1970 by the late Kosho Uchiyama Roshi. He now resides in Bloomington, Indiana, where he founded the Sanshin Zen Community.
Larry Smith
Larry Smith is Professor of English and Humanities at Firelands College of Bowling Green State University.