Archives: Authors

Phakchok Rinpoche

Phakchok Rinpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist teacher from the Nyingma and Kagyu lineages. He is co-author of Radically Happy: A User’s Guide to the Mind.

Erric Solomon is a former Silicon Valley technologist, Buddhist yogi and teacher. He is co-author of Radically Happy: A User’s Guide to the Mind. You can find him at <a href="https://radicallyhappy.org/">RadicallyHappy.org</a> and on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/erric.solomon">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/radically_erric/">Instagram</a>.

Lobsang Rapgay

Lobsang Rapgay, PhD, is a research psychologist, and Director of the Clinical Training program for Mental Health Professionals at the Mindfulness Awareness Research Center, UCLA.

Lama Rigzin Drolma

Anne Carolyn Klein is Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas and co-founding director and resident teacher at Dawn Mountain.

Rev. Dr. Serene Jones

Rev. Dr. Serene Jones is president of Union Theological Seminary in New York and Professor for Religion and Democracy. Her forthcoming book is Call It Grace: Finding Meaning in a Fractured World.

Derek Pyle

Derek Pyle is a writer based in Southern Oregon. In 2017, Derek cofounded the Buddhist Humanitarian Project with Hozan Alan Senauke, responding to the genocide against the Rohingya. He can be contacted regarding Buddhist solidarity with Myanmar at derekdpyle@pm.me

Heidi Köppl

Heidi Köppl is a translator of Tibetan Buddhist scriptures, practices, and lectures, as well as the author of Establishing Appearances as Divine: Rongzom Chözang on Reasoning, Madhyamaka, and Purity

Gyokei Yokoyama

Gyokei Yokoyama is a Soto Zen priest with the Long Beach Buddhist Church, a nondenominational community in Long Beach, California.

Nikki Mirghafori

Nikki Mirghafori aspires to serve as “a doula for wisdom and compassion.” As a lineage holder in the Theravada tradition empowered by the Burmese master Venerable Pa Auk Sayadaw, she teaches at Spirit Rock and at Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California. She is also a researcher, inventor, and consultant in the field of artificial intelligence, exploring humanistic applications and ethics of AI.

Koshin Paley Ellison

Koshin Paley Ellison co-founded the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, the first Buddhist organization to offer fully accredited chaplaincy training in America. His newest book is Wholehearted: Slow Down, Help Out, Wake Up.