Archives: Authors

Margaret Wheatley

Margaret Wheatley is the author of Leadership and the New Science and co-author of A Simpler Way. She is the president of the Berkana Institute, a non-profit foundation supporting the discovery of new organizational forms.

Trevor Carolan

Venerable Khandro Rinpoche

The Ven. Khandro Rinpoche is one of the most prominent women teachers in Tibetan Buddhism. She is a holder of the Kagyü and Nyingma lineages of vajrayana Buddhism; her root teachers are the late Sixteenth Karmapa, the late Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, and her father, Mindrolling Tichen Rinpoche. Fluent in English, Khandro Rinpoche teaches regularly in North America and Europe.

David Sipress

Cristina Moon

Cristina Moon is a Buddhist priest, writer, and strategist who helps others develop the sensitivity and strength needed to stay calm amid chaos. Previously, she had a global career in human rights and social change, and graduated from business school at Stanford. For more information, please visit <a href="http://www.cristinamoon.com">www.cristinamoon.com</a>.

Steve Peskind

Steve Peskind was the coordinator of the Buddhist AIDS Project in San Francisco. His anthology of work is titled Heart Lessons From an Epidemic: Buddhist Practice and Living with HIV, published by Parallax Press. Steve died in 2004.

Lawrence Pintak

Lawrence Pintak is a freelance writer living in Princeton, Massachusetts.

Judith Simmer-Brown

Judith Simmer-Brown is Distinguished Professor of Contemplative and Religious Studies at Naropa University and a senior Buddhist teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition.

Joanna Burger

Joanna Burger is distinguished professor of biology at Rutgers University, where she teaches animal behavior. An ecologist, behavioral biologist, and ecotoxicologist, she has studied migrating and foraging birds, the effects of contaminants on avian development, and birds as indicators of environmental health. She is the author of The Parrot Who Owns Me and A Visual Guide to Birds.

John Welwood

John Welwood, Ph.D. (1943-2019) was a psychotherapist and student of Tibetan Buddhism for more than thirty-five years. His books include Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart.

Brenda Shoshanna

Brenda Shoshanna is a psychologist and a practitioner of both Zen and Judaism. She is the author of Jewish Dharma and Zen and the Art of Falling in Love. Her work focuses on integrating East and West, and she offers workshops on relationships and personal and spiritual development. Her new book is Fearless (The 7 Principles of Peace of Mind): <a href="http://becomefearless.org/">becomefearless.org</a>.

Amy Green

Matthieu Ricard

Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk who had a promising career in cellular genetics before leaving France thirty-five years ago to study Buddhism in the Himalayas. He is an author, translator, and has been a participant in scientific research on the effects that meditation has on the brain. Ricard’s work is held high regard in intellectual circles in Europe, and two books he co-authored, The Monk and the Philosopher and The Quantum and the Lotus, are best-sellers in France. He lives in Tibet and Nepal.

Sumi Loundon Kim

Sumi Loundon Kim is the Buddhist chaplain at Yale University and founder of the Mindful Families of Durham. She is editor of the anthologies Blue Jean Buddha and The Buddha’s Apprentices, from Wisdom Publications, and the author of Sitting Together: A Family-Centered Curriculum on Mindfulness, Meditation, and Buddhist Teachings.

Rachel Naomi Remen

Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. is Associate Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine at U.C.S.F. Medical School and co-founder and medical director of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program. She is author of the bestseller, Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal.