Archives: Authors
Joan Tollifson
Joan Tollifson was on staff at Toni Packer’s springwater Center for five years. She is the author of <i>Bare Bones Meditation</i> and <i>Nothing to Grasp</i>, and is currently writing a book about aging and dying.
Jim Willems
Jim Willems has been a Buddhist practitioner for more than forty years and a student of Joseph Goldstein since 1992. He teaches vipassana and jhana meditation at the east Bay meditation Center in Oakland, California.
Maureen Connor
Maureen Connor (Samten Wangmo) was ordained as a lay teacher in the Tibetan Karma Kagyu tradition in 2004.
Ann Shaftel
Ann Shaftel is a preservation consultant and conservator specializing in Buddhist art. Her clients include museums, governments, universities, and Buddhist monasteries around the world.
Geoffrey Samuel
Geoffrey Samuel is a professor at Cardiff University in Wales, and a research fellow at the University of Sydney, specializing in anthropology and religion in Tibetan societies. He is the author of Introducing Tibetan Buddhism and a co-editor of Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia, both published by Routledge.
Gregory Shepherd
Gregory Shepherd is an associate professor of music at Kauai Community College in Hawaii. He has been a student of Zen in Hawaii and Japan since the early 1970s.
Ajahn Viradhammo
Ajahn Viradhammo is abbot of Tisarana Buddhist Monastery near Perth, Ontario, which is in the Thai Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah and Ajahn Sumedho. He took bhikkhu ordination in 1974 with Ajahn Chah.
Eve Rosenthal
Eve Rosenthal is a Shambhala acharya, or senior teacher, who became a close friend and dharma sister to Lisa Hilliard after moving to Nova Scotia in 1990.
Catherine Toldi
Catherine Toldi is a Zen priest in the lineage of Suzuki roshi and a longtime member of the Santa Cruz Zen Center. For the past thirty years she has worked as a professional facilitator and trainer, helping groups work collaboratively. She is a coauthor of <i>Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making </i>(Jossey-Bass).