Archives: Authors
Robert Thurman
Robert Thurman is a professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, and President of Tibet House U.S.
Alan Clements
Alan Clements is founder of the Burma Project USA and an expert on the democracy movement in Burma. He lived in Burma for eight years, for much of that time as a Buddhist monk. He is the author of Burma: The Next Killing Fields? (1991), and co-author of the photographic book Burma’s Revolution of the Spirit (1991). He was an advisor on the film Beyond Rangoon and speaks frequently on Burma’s struggle for democracy. The Voice of Hope was published by Seven Stories Press.
bell hooks
bell hooks (1952-2021) described herself as a "Black woman intellectual, revolutionary activist." A leading cultural critic and thinker about such issues as feminism and race, bell hooks published more than 30 books, including <em>All About Love: New Visions</em>.
Sandy Boucher
Sandy Boucher is a writer, teacher and editor with forty years’ experience of Buddhism. She is the author of nine books, including <em>Turning the Wheel, Hidden Spring, Dancing in the Dharma</em> and <em>She Appears!: Encounters with Kwan Yin Bodhisattva of Compassion.<strong> </strong></em>For information on her background, writing consultation and editing work see <a href="http://sandyboucher.info/">Sandyboucher.info</a>
Bonnie Myotai Treace
Bonnie Myotai Treace, Sensei, served for many years as vice-abbess of Zen Mountain Monastery and abbess of the Zen Center of New York City. In 2004, she founded Hermitage Heart, a Zen training program with a special emphasis on home practice. She lives and teaches in Black Mountain, North Carolina.
Rita M. Gross
Rita M. Gross is author of the influential book <em>Buddhism After Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism </em>and many other books and articles. She is a senior teacher under Khandro Rinpoche, and also studies with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.
Maezumi Roshi
Taizan Maezumi Roshi was a pivotal figure in the transmission of Zen Buddhism to the West. Ordained as a Zen monk at age 11, he moved to the United States from Japan in 1956. Maezumi Roshi was founder and abbot of the Zen Center of Los Angeles, and founded five other Soto Zen temples in the United States and Europe. He transmitted the dharma to twelve successors and established the White Plum Asanga to carry on his lineage.
Jakusho Kwong Roshi
Jakusho Kwong Roshi, a successor in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, is the founder and abbot of the Sonoma Mountain Zen Center outside of Santa Rosa, California.
Blanche Hartman
Zenkei Blanche Hartman (1926-2016) was a Senior Dharma Teacher and the first woman Abbot of San Francisco Zen Center.