Archives: Authors

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 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.

Roger Lipsey

Elaine Pierce

John Kaag

John Kaag is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

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.