Archives: Authors
Erik Braun
Erik Braun is the author of <em>The Birth of Insight: Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw</em>, published by University of Chicago Press, November 2013. He is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia
Bruce Tift
Bruce Tift, MA, LMFT has been in private practice since 1979, taught at Naropa University for 25 years, and has given presentations in the US, Mexico, and Japan. He has been practitioner of Vajrayana Buddhism for more than 35 years.
Thupten Jinpa
Thupten Jinpa Langri was educated in the classical Tibetan monastic academia and received the highest academic degree of Geshe Lharam (equivalent to a doctorate in divinity). Jinpa also holds a BA in philosophy and a PhD in religious studies, both from the University of Cambridge, England. Since 1985, he has been the principal translator to the Dalai Lama, accompanying him to the United States, Canada, and Europe. He has translated and edited many books by the Dalai Lama, including The World of Tibetan Buddhism, Essence of the Heart Sutra, and the New York Times bestseller Ethics for the New Millennium. Jinpa has published scholarly articles on various aspects of Tibetan culture, Buddhism, and philosophy, and books such as Songs of Spiritual Experience: Tibetan Poems of Awakening and Insight (co-authored) and Self, Reality and Reason in Tibetan Thought. He serves on the advisory board of numerous educational and cultural organizations in North America, Europe, and India. He is currently the president and the editor-in-chief of the Institute of Tibetan Classics, a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to translating key Tibetan classics into contemporary languages. And he also currently chairs the Mind and Life Institute and the Compassion Institute.
David Chadwick
David Chadwick is the author of Crooked Cucumber, a biography of Shunryu Suzuki, and Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki. His website, cuke.com, is an archive of the world of Suzuki Roshi and those who knew him.
Colleen Morton Busch
Colleen Morton Busch holds an MFA in poetry, but she also writes nonfiction and fiction. Her work has appeared in a wide range of publications, including literary magazines, HuffPost, the Washington Post, Yoga Journal, Wild Hope and Orion. She’s the author of Fire Monks: Zen Mind Meets Wildfire, an acclaimed narrative account of the 2008 fire that threatened to destroy Tassajara monastery. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Karen Connelly
Karen Connelly is an award-winning Canadian author. For the full story of her brother’s accident, visit gofundme.com/BringDaveyHome.
Stephen Holoviak
Stephen Holoviak is a professor of management at Penn State University, Mont Alto, and the father of four children, one of whom has autism. He lives in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
Rachel Neumann
Rachel Neumann is a literary agent and the director of strategy at Idea Architects. She’s the author of <em>Not Quite Nirvana: A Skeptic’s Journey to Mindfulness</em>.
Kyo Maclear
Kyo Maclear is a visual arts writer and author of two novels, <em>Stray Love</em> and <em>The Letter Opener</em>. She lives in Toronto.
Tara Bennett-Goleman
Tara Bennett-Goleman is a psychotherapist and the author of the New York Times bestseller Emotional Alchemy who teaches workshops internationally with her husband, Daniel Goleman. She draws on her studies with Buddhist masters, including Sayadaw U Pandita, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche, and Adeu Rinpoche, in her new book, Mind Whispering: A New Map to Freedom from Self-Defeating Emotional Habits, excerpted in this issue. The book weaves together Eastern and Western approaches to the mind, the science of habit change, methods from cognitive therapy, and the wisdom teachings that horses whisper to us.
Daniel Goleman
Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., is the author of <i>Emotional Intelligence</i> and <i>Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships</i>. Working as a science journalist, Goleman reports on the brain and behavioral sciences for <i>The New York Times</i>.
Susan Murphy
Susan Murphy Roshi is the founding teacher of Zen Open Circle in Sydney, Australia. She is the author of Upside Down Zen and Minding the Earth, Mending the World.
Shinge Roko Sherry Chayat Roshi
Shinge Roko Sherry Chayat is the Abbot of the Zen Studies Society.
Sekkei Harada Roshi
Sekkei Harada Roshi is abbot of Hosshinji, a Soto Zen monastery in Fukui Prefecture, Japan.
John Daido Loori
John Daido Loori, Roshi (1939-2009) was the founder and director of the Mountains and Rivers Order and abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery in Mt. Tremper, New York.