Archives: Authors

Megan Rundel

Megan Rundel is the resident teacher at the Crimson Gate Meditation Community in Oakland, California.

Jenny Phillips is the director and producer of the documentary film, The Dhamma Brothers, about the impact of vipassana meditation courses on the lives of inmates in a maximum-security prison in Alabama.

Thinley Norbu Rinpoche

Thinley Norbu Rinpoche (1931-2011) was an important modern teacher in the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. He was the eldest son of Dudjom Rinpoche, the former head of the Nyingma school, and also the father of Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche and Dungse Garab Rinpoche. Thinley Norbu Rinpoche was considered to be an emanation of the 14th-century Nyingma master Longchempa. He wrote many books including A Cascading Waterfall of Nectar , White Sail, and The Small Golden Key .

Samuel Bercholz

Samuel Bercholz is the founder and editor-in-chief of Shambhala Publications. He studied with Thinley Norbu Rinpoche for more than two decades, and has been teaching Buddhism and the Shambhala teachings for nearly four decades.

Sangye Khandro

Sangye Khandro has served as a translator for many prominent masters, including Thinley Norbu Rinpoche, and is one of the founders of Light of Berotsana Translation Group. A longtime practitioner of Vajrayana, she studied with Thinley Norbu and his father, Dudjom Rinpoche, her root teacher.

Rick Tetzeli

Rick Tetzeli, executive editor of Fast Company, has covered technology for two decades. He is the former deputy editor of Fortune, and editor of Entertainment Weekly.

Brent Schlender

Brent Schlender is one of the premiere chroniclers of the personal computer revolution, writing about every major figure and company in the tech industry. He covered Steve Jobs for the Wall Street Journal and Fortune for nearly 25 years.

Bhikkhuni Sudhamma

Sudhamma Bhikkhuni from Charlotte, North Carolina is the first American woman ordained in Sri Lanka and has been recognized at the United Nations in Bangkok as an "Outstanding Woman in Buddhism." She was ordained as a novice by her teacher Bhante H. Gunaratana and became a bhikkhuni in 2003. She was abbess of the Charlotte Buddhist Vihara.

Jitindriya

Jitindriya (Loraine Keats) was a nun for seventeen years in the Ajahn Chah/Ajahn Sumedho Forest tradition. She took ordination in Britain as a novice in 1988 and as a siladhara in 1990. After leaving the monastic order, she earned a master’s degree in Buddhist psychotherapy and now lives in New South Wales, Australia, where she has a clinical practice in Buddhist psychotherapy.

Cintamani

Cintamani (Elizabeth Day) has been a Buddhist practitioner for sixteen years, including six as an ordained member of the Amaravati and Cittaviveka (Chithurst) Theravada monastic communities in Britain. She has a doctorate in cultural studies and teaches and practices psychotherapy in Melbourne. She is currently editing a collection of writings by Buddhist women practitioners.