Archives: Authors
Rebecca Bradshaw
Rebecca Bradshaw is a guiding teacher emeritus at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. She lives with her husband and two cats.
Hokuto Daniel Diffin
Hokuto Daniel Diffin Osho is an ordained dharma teacher, president of the board at the Zen Studies Society, a poet, and a physician.
Heather Sanche
Heather Sanche is the author of The Life of the Buddha. In 2007, she took temporary ordination within the Pa-Auk tradition and lived in a forest monastery in Myanmar.
Thomas Calobrisi
Thomas Calobrisi received his PhD in religious studies from the Graduate Theological Union in 2021. He is currently a member of the adjunct faculty at the Institute of Buddhist Studies and an admissions counselor at University of the West. His research focuses on how Buddhist ideas, practices, and artifacts have been recontextualized in the religious and cutlural landscape of 21st century North America.
Robert Stevens
Bob Stevens serves as Chair of the Governing Council of the Shambhala Meditation Center of New York and Secretary of the Buddhist Council of New York. Bob has been a student of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche since the early 1980s. A management consultant, he lives in New York City with his wife Anna and son Arthur.
Peter Moretzsohn
Peter Moretzsohn is a poet, musician, gardener and Zen practitioner living with his wife in central Vermont. Born in Pennsylvania, he fell in love with both the Dharma and the Green Mountains as a college student, and his life has been oriented toward them ever since. His poetry and prose have been published in the Philadelphia-based Quaker magazine Friends Journal. His work has always revolved around themes of stillness and silence, and a sense of something uncontrived to be found therein. Since 2019 he has been engaged in formal Zen training as a lay student at Zen Mountain Monastery in Mt. Tremper, NY.
Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva, a world-renowned environmental thinker, activist, feminist, philosopher of science, writer and science policy advocat, is the founder of Navdanya Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology (India) and President of Navdanya International. Trained as a Physicist at the University of Punjab, she completed her Ph.D. on the ‘Hidden Variables and Non-locality in Quantum Theory’ from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She later shifted to inter-disciplinary research in science, technology and environmental policy, which she carried out at the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, India. In 1982 she founded the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology (RFSTE), an independent research institute that addresses the most significant problems of ecology of our times, and two years later, Navdanya (‘nine seeds’) the movement in defense of biodiversity and small farmers. In 2011 she founded Navdanya International in Italy and is Chairman of the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture, co-founded with the then President of the Region of Tuscany. Recipient of many awards, including in 1993 the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’, and named among the top five “Most Important People in Asia” by AsiaWeek in 2001. She is a prolific writer and author of numerous books and serves on the board of the International Forum on Globalization, and member of the executive committee of the World Future Council.
