Archives: Authors

Tami Simon

Tami Simon is the founder and CEO of Sounds True, a multi-media company that disseminates spiritual wisdom.

Aurelia Santos is an award-winning photographer, nonprofit communications specialist, and dance organizer in Oakland. Passionate about the immigrant experience, social justice, and sex positivity, Aurelia uses storytelling and dancing for her brand of social activism.

Aakash Chowkase

Aakash Chowkase, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Greater Good Science Center, where he is conducting research on bridging differences. Specifically, he is developing a tool to measure social cohesion and then using it to evaluate GGSC’s bridging differences practices.

Maryam Abdullah

Maryam Abdullah, Ph.D., is the Parenting Program Director of the Greater Good Science Center. She is a developmental psychologist with expertise in parent-child relationships and children’s development of prosocial behaviors.

Bradley Donaldson

Formerly a monk, Bradley Donaldson teaches meditation. He’s focused on helping queer and BIPOC folks heal and cultivate connection.

Lama Hun Lye

Lama Hun Lye grew up in Malaysia and has a Ph.D in Religious Studies from University of Virginia. He is a lama in the Drikung Kagyu since being appointed a Dorjé Lopön (lit. “vajra-master”) by H.H. Drikung Kyabgön Chetsang Rinpoché in 2013. He is founder of Urban Dharma NC and Drikung Dharmakirti International Sangha.

Roberval Oliveira

Roberval Oliveira is a mindfulness meditation teacher and the author of Silence: Journals from a Meditation Retreat.

Jan Westerhoff

Jan Westerhoff is Professor of Buddhist Philosophy at the University of Oxford. His research concentrates on Buddhist philosophy (primarily on Madhyamaka) and on contemporary analytic philosophy (mainly on metaphysics). His publications include <em>Nāgārjuna’s Madhyamaka</em> and <em>The Golden Age of Indian Buddhist Philosophy</em>.

David Germano

David Germano, PhD, is Executive Director of the Contemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia, where he has taught and researched Tibetan and Buddhist Studies since 1992. A co-leader of the Student Flourishing Initiative, a partnership of UVA, the University of Wisconsin, and Penn State University, he is also lead organizer of an international research community of scholars and translators specializing in the Great Perfection tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.

Adrienne Chang

Adrienne Chang is a student in the tradition of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. She has co-led Buddhist study and meditation retreats in Europe, North America, and online. She is also a participant in the Milinda Program, a ten-year, multi-sangha, shedra-style teacher training program for Western dharma instructors under the vision and guidance of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche.