Archives: Authors
Margaret Wheatley
Margaret Wheatley is the author of Leadership and the New Science and co-author of A Simpler Way. She is the president of the Berkana Institute, a non-profit foundation supporting the discovery of new organizational forms.
Venerable Khandro Rinpoche
The Ven. Khandro Rinpoche is one of the most prominent women teachers in Tibetan Buddhism. She is a holder of the Kagyü and Nyingma lineages of vajrayana Buddhism; her root teachers are the late Sixteenth Karmapa, the late Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, and her father, Mindrolling Tichen Rinpoche. Fluent in English, Khandro Rinpoche teaches regularly in North America and Europe.
Cristina Moon
Cristina Moon lives at Daihonzan Chozen-ji, a Rinzai Zen temple in Hawaii. <a href="https://www.cristinamoon.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.cristinamoon.com</a>.
Steve Peskind
Steve Peskind was the coordinator of the Buddhist AIDS Project in San Francisco. His anthology of work is titled <em>Heart Lessons From an Epidemic: Buddhist Practice and Living with HIV</em>, published by Parallax Press. Steve died in 2004.
Judith Simmer-Brown
Judith Simmer-Brown is Distinguished Professor of Contemplative and Religious Studies at Naropa University and a senior Buddhist teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition.
Joanna Burger
Joanna Burger is distinguished professor of biology at Rutgers University, where she teaches animal behavior. An ecologist, behavioral biologist, and ecotoxicologist, she has studied migrating and foraging birds, the effects of contaminants on avian development, and birds as indicators of environmental health. She is the author of <em>The Parrot Who Owns Me</em> and <em>A Visual Guide to Birds</em>.
John Welwood
John Welwood, Ph.D. is a psychotherapist who has been a student of Tibetan Buddhism for more than thirty-five years. His books include <em>Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart</em>.