Archives: Authors

Arunlikhati

Arunlikhati is a blogger at <a href="http://www.angryasianbuddhist.com/">Angry Asian Buddhist</a> and <a>Dharma Folk</a>.

Mahasi Sayadaw (1904–1982) was a Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk and meditation master. His style of practice had a significant influence on the teachings of Vipassana (Insight) meditation in the West and throughout Asia. This teaching is from his most famous work, Manual of Insight, forthcoming in May in a new translation from Wisdom Publications.

Annabella Pitkin

Annabella Pitkin is assistant professor of Buddhism and East Asian Religions at Lehigh University. She specializes in Tibetan Buddhism and Asian intellectual history.

Aura Glaser

Aura Glaser is an author, psychologist, photographer, and dharma coyote. After decades of deep immersion as student and teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, she is no longer affiliated with a particular tradition. Her website is <a href="https://www.auraglaser.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.auraglaser.com</a>.

Rebecca Li

Rebecca Li, PhD. is a Dharma heir in the lineage of Chan Master Sheng Yen and the founder and guiding teacher of <a href="https://chandharmacommunity.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chan Dharma Community</a>. She teaches meditation and Dharma classes, gives public lectures, and leads retreats in North America and Europe. Her talks and writings can be found at <a href="https://rebeccali.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.rebeccali.org</a>. She is a sociology professor and lives with her husband in New Jersey. She is the author of <a href="https://rebeccali.org/allow-joy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Allow Joy into Our Hearts: Chan Practice in Uncertain Times</a></em>, and her new book is <a href="https://rebeccali.org/2023/06/04/illumination/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Illumination: A Guide to the Buddhist Method of No-Method</em></a> (Shambhala Publications, October 2023).

Nadia Colburn

Nadia Colburn is an OI Aspirant in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village Tradition, a coach and creative writer. She holds a PhD in English from Columbia University, is a founding editor at Anchor Magazine: where spirituality and social justice meet, and has been published widely in such places as The New Yorker, Yes! Magazine, and LA Review of Books. Her coaching business, AlignYourLight, helps clients and groups live with alignment, integrity and fullness from their deepest knowing in a culture so often out of alignment and full of contradictions. See more at <a href="http://www.nadiacolburn.com">www.nadiacolburn.com</a>.

Vince Fakhoury Horn

Vincent Horn is a cofounder of Buddhist Geeks, which asks, "How can we serve the convergence of Buddhism with rapidly evolving technology and an increasingly global culture?"

Michael Stroud

Michael Stroud is a freelance writer living in southern California. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Asian Wall Street Journal, and other publications.

Russell Evans

Russell Evans is the director of Transition Lab, a school that teaches people realistic ways to take radical steps toward creating a more just, fun, and beautiful world. Transition Lab powers this work by meeting basic needs through relationships rather than money. Its students develop ways of living that allow them to use their gifts to create better livelihoods for a new economy.

Jim Lowrey

Jim Lowrey was an early student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, who, with the rest of his Pygmy hippie family, went to Trungpa Rinpoche’s first public talk in Colorado in 1970 and connected with him immediately. As part of the early baby boom generation, Jim considers himself "emblematic of the sixties generation of war protesters, college dropouts, and hippies, who matured as the American born-again organic, locally grown, free-run middle class."