Archives: Authors
Ayya Yeshe
Ayya Yeshe is a Mahayana nun and head of Bodhicitta Dakini Monastery in Australia and Bodhicitta Foundation, which serves the poor in the slums of central India.
Michel Bitbol
Michel Bitbol is a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. He holds a medical degree, a doctorate in physics, and an Habilitation in philosophy. After his start in physics, he turned to philosophy, editing texts by Erwin Schrödinger and formulating a neo-Kantian philosophy of quantum mechanics. His work, done in collaboration with Francisco Varela, has drawn a parallel between Buddhist dependent arising and nonsupervenient relations in quantum physics.
Sara Lewis
Sara Lewis brings her training as both a psychotherapist and an anthropologist of religion and medicine to Naropa University, where she teaches contemplative psychotherapy and Buddhist psychology. Her work (including her book <em>Spacious Minds: Trauma and Resilience in Tibetan Buddhism</em>, which will be published next year), explores “how individuals and communities cope with the vicissitudes of life — not in spite of suffering, but through it, and because of it.”
Ann Gleig
Ann Gleig is an associate professor of religion and cultural studies at the University of Central Florida. She completed her PhD in religious studies at Rice University in 2010, focusing on Buddhism and Hinduism in modernity. Her book <em>American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity</em> was published by Yale University Press in 2019.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was an American writer, known for fantasy and science fiction.
Khin Mai Aung
Khin Mai Aung has written numerous pieces in Lion’s Roar and other publications about civil rights in Myanmar, and has practiced American civil rights, immigrant rights, and education law for more than 20 years.
Ram Dass
Born Richard Alpert, Ram Dass is the founder of the Love Serve Remember Project and co-founder of the Seva Foundation and the Prison Ashram Project. He is the author of the worldwide spiritual classic Be Here Now (Crown, 1971), and many other books. His most recent book is Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart (Sounds True, 2013/2014). Visit ramdass.org
Paul Garrigan
For more from Paul Garrigan, including information about his book, <a href="http://paulgarrigan.com/dead-drunk/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Dead Drunk</a> – a memoir of his time at Thamkrabok and the story of how he ended up there, visit him <a href="http://paulgarrigan.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">on the web</a>.