Francesca Fremantle

Francesca Fremantle received her doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies at London University. She is a Buddhist teacher, scholar, and translator of Sanskrit and Tibetan works and was a student of Chögyam Trungpa starting in the late 1960s. Together with Trungpa Rinpoche, she translated <em>The Tibetan Book of the Dead</em>. She is also the author of <em>Luminous Emptiness: Understanding the Tibetan Book of the Dead</em>. She lives in London, England.

Chong Hae Sunim

Hae Sunim is abbot of the Providence Zen Center in Cumberland, Rhode Island.

Rev. Eijun Eidson

Rev. Eijun Eidson is a Shingon priest and headmaster of the Koyasan Shingon Tenchiji Temple in Fresno, California.

Ajahn Punnadhammo

Ajahn Punnadhammo is abbot of the Arrow River Forest Hermitage in northern Ontario.

Sarah Harding

Sarah Harding is a Tibetan translator and lama in the Kagyü school of Vajrayana Buddhism. She translated Jamgon Kongtrul's Creation and Completion (Wisdom Publications).

Shohaku Okumura

Shohaku Okumura was ordained as a Soto Zen priest in 1970 by the late Kosho Uchiyama Roshi. He now resides in Bloomington, Indiana, where he founded the Sanshin Zen Community.

Larry Smith

Larry Smith is Professor of English and Humanities at Firelands College of Bowling Green State University.

Jigme Lingpa

Jigme Lingpa was a Dzogchen teacher who lived from 1730 to 1798.