Archives: Authors

Susan Bauer-Wu

Susan Bauer-Wu is an organizational leader, clinical scientist, and mindfulness teacher, who since 2015 has served as the President of the Mind & Life Institute, an organization co-founded by the Dalai Lama to bring science and contemplative wisdom together to better understand the mind and create positive change in the world. At Mind & Life, she has championed “human-earth connection” as a priority focus area. Early in her career she was an oncology and hospice nurse and then received a PhD specializing in psychoneuroimmunology, and has since held leadership and academic roles in nonprofits, universities, and health care. Susan is the author of A Future We Can Love and Leaves Falling Gently.

Kathleen Dean Moore

Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature and Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril, is a distinguished professor of philosophy at Oregon State University.

Lori Deschene

Lori Deschene is the author of Tiny Buddha and founder of the popular website tinybuddha.com.

Sister Chan Khong

Sister Chan Khong has been Thich Nhat Hanh’s closest collaborator for more than fifty years. She’s the author of Deep Relaxation (Parallax Press).

Laura Randeles

Laura Randeles was raised in Houston, Texas. In 2008 she became a yoga teacher and has taught various forms of yoga to anyone willing to show up to her classes. She now lives in Washington, DC and works as a contract attorney by day and yoga teacher by night.

Michael J. Sweet

Michael J. Sweet is the author of Mission to Tibet: The Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Account of Father Ippolito Desideri and a researcher in Madison, Wisconsin, focusing on the early modern Catholic missions to Tibet.

Julianne Victoria

Julianne Victoria is a writer and massage therapist with an interest in Buddhism and the healing arts. She lives in Seattle.

Kittisaro

Kittisaro was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford before going to Thailand in 1976 and ordaining with Ajahn Chah. He lived as a monk in the Forest Tradition for fifteen years and has practiced Chan and Pure Land Buddhism for the past thirty years.

Anne Carolyn Klein

Anne Carolyn Klein (Rigzin Drolma) is cofounder of Dawn Mountain Tibetan Temple, Community Center, and Research Institute in Houston, Texas. She is also a professor of religious studies at Houston’s Rice University and the author of Heart Essence of the Great Expanse: A Story of Transmission. Her forthcoming book, Strand of Jewels, is a distillation of Dzogchen teachings by Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche.

Genjo Marinello Osho

Genjo Marinello Osho is the abbot of Chobo-ji, a temple in the Rinzai-Hakuin lineage of Zen in Seattle, Washington. He studied with the founding abbot of Chobo-Ji for twenty years, and later trained with Eido Shimano Roshi, who declared him a dharma heir in 2008. He is also a psychotherapist in private practice.