Archives: Authors
Jim Bedard
Jim Bedard is author of <i>Lotus in the Fire: The Healing Power of Zen</i> (Shambhala Publications). He is a disciple of Sensei Sunyana Graef and a member of the Toronto Zen Center.
Richard Brown
Richard Brown teaches early childhood education at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.
Diana Atkinson
Diana Atkinson is the author of <i>Highways and Dancehalls</i>, a finalist in the Governor General of Canada’s Literary Awards. She is a massage therapist in Boulder, Colorado.
Fred Kofman
Fred Kofman is a consultant in organizational learning for a number of large companies and is the founder of Leading Learning Communities, based in Boulder, Colorado.
Toni Packer
Toni Packer began studing Zen in 1967 with Roshi Philip Kapleau at the Rochester Zen Center. In 1981, she founded the Springwater Center for Meditative Inquiry in Springwater, New York.
Alexander Boldizar
Alexander Boldizar is a Slovak-born Canadian lawyer and writer who has lived throughout Asia, most recently in Nepal and Indonesia. He is author of the novel <i>Flypaper Coils</i>.
Roger Guest
Roger Guest was co- director of Karmê Chöling from 1980 to 1986 and is now director of the Boston Shambhala Meditation Center.
Charles Prebish
Dr. Charles Prebish is the author of Luminous Passage: The Practice and Study of Buddhism in America, and co-editor of The Faces of Buddhism in America. He holds the Charles Redd Chair in Religious Studies at Utah State University.
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.