Archives: Authors
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.
Aram Saroyan
Aram Saroyan's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The Paris Review, and Rolling Stone. His books include Genesis Angels: The Saga of Lew Welch and the Beat Generation, Last Rites and Trio: Portrait of an Intimate Friendship.