Archives: Authors
Christopher Queen
Christopher Queen is a lecturer on the study of religion at Harvard University and president of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. He is the author of Engaged Buddhism in the West and co-editor of Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia and Action Dharma: New Studies in Engaged Buddhism.
Amanda Palmer
Amanda Palmer is a singer, pianist, and composer for the "punk cabaret" duet The Dresden Dolls. She's been studying meditation since a wonderful neighbor turned her on to the practice at age fifteen, and she recently began training to teach yoga.
Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche
Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche the abbot of Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, the North American seat of the Seventeeth Karmapa, located in Woodstock, New York.
Patton Dodd
Patton Dodd is an editor for Beliefnet and a doctoral candidate in religion and literature at Boston University. He is the author of My Faith So Far: A Story of Conversation and Confusion (Jossey-Bass). He lives with his family in Colorado.
Joseph Emet
Joseph Emet is a Buddhist teacher and author of Finding the Blue Sky: A Mindful Approach to Choosing Happiness Here and Now (TarcherPerigee).
Beata Grant
Beata Grant is a professor of Chinese and religious studies at Washington University in St. Louis and the author of Daughters of Emptiness: Poems of Chinese Buddhist Nuns (Wisdom Publications).
Miriam Levering
Miriam Levering is a professor of religious studies at the University of Tennessee. She has written scholarly articles on Miaozong, Miaodao, and Dogen’s encouragement of male students to take women as their teachers.