Archives: Authors
Mariana Restrepo
Mariana Restrepo is deputy editor of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Guide (published by Lion’s Roar). She is Colombian with a Nyingma-Kagyu Tibetan Buddhist background, has an MA in Religious Studies, and currently lives in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina with her husband and two children.
John A Martson
John A. Marston is a professor at the Center for Asian and African Studies of El Colegio de México in Mexico City. He has written extensively about Cambodian Buddhism.
Ikumi Kaminishi
Ikumi Kaminish is an associate professor of the history of art and architecture at Tufts University. She specializes in Buddhist art.
Denise Leidy
Denise Leidy is the author of The Art of Buddhism and coauthor of Mandala: The Architecture of Enlightenment.
Damchö Diana Finnegan
Damchö Diana Finnegan is a translator, author, and cofounder of Comunidad Dharmadatta (Dharmadatta Community), a Spanish-speaking community that locates gender and ecological issues at the heart of Buddhist practice. She co-edited and translated Interconnected: Embracing Life in a Global Society and The Heart Is Noble: Changing the World From the Inside Out. From 1999, she held monastic vows for over two decades.
Breeshia Wade
Breeshia Wade is an ordained Buddhist chaplain and the author of<em> Grieving While Black: An Antiracist Take on Oppression and Sorrow</em>.
Paul Condon
Paul Condon is an associate professor of psychology at Southern Oregon University in Ashland and a visiting lecturer at Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Nepal. His research areas range from attachment theory, to the impact of meditation on compassion, to the dialogue between psychological science and modern meditation programs. He teaches meditation practices adapted from the Tibetan Nyingma tradition.
David Viafora
David Viafora, a former monk in the Plum Village tradition, was introduced to Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings as a poor college student, when someone gave him free tickets to a public lecture. He spent a year visiting and studying sanghas around the world — the result is his forthcoming book, <em>Conscious Communities: The Transformative Power of Sangha,</em> available in 2023. He now lives at MorningSun Community in New Hampshire.
Sonam Kachru
Sonam Kachru is an assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where his research centers on the history of Buddhist philosophy in ancient South Asia. His first book, released this summer, is Other Lives: Mind and World in Indian Buddhism, a new interpretation of the Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu.
Nalika Gajaweera
Nalika Gajaweera is a research anthropologist at the University of Southern California, specializing in the intersections of Buddhism, race, ethno-nationalism, and gender. She is the coordinator of "Transforming the American Sangha", a Kataly Foundation – sponsored project that explores race, racism, and diversity in North American Insight centers, with the goal of developing resources for other communities wishing to be more inclusive.