Archives: Authors

John Bussineau

John Bussineau is an author and member of the Jewel Heart Sangha. He is a senior student of the late Gelek Rimpoche (seen here on the right) and teaches Dharma class in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. On Rimpoche’s deathbed in January 2017 he named John and his wife Billie as Jewel Heart’s Ambassadors for Vegetarianism, Veganism, and Animal Rights. John is the author of The Buddha, The Vegan, You, and Meat Our Delusion, publishing in June 2017. John is also chapter leader of Dharma Voices for Animals Detroit-Ann Arbor group.

John DeMont

Halifax-based writer John DeMont's work has appeared in many newspapers and magazines including The Financial Times, Men's Journal, The Walrus and Maclean's, where he worked for 15 years. His seventh book, The Long Way Home: A Personal History of Nova Scotia, will be published in October 2017.

Richard Gere

Richard Gere is an actor, activist, and chair of the International Campaign for Tibet.

Cassandra Moore

Cassandra Moore is a writer who lives in the soft hills of Santa Fe. She is a resident at Upaya Zen Center, and a native to the desert southwest.

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong is a New York Times bestselling author specializing in culture and entertainment. Her new book is When Women Invented Television. She is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Seinfeldia-About-Nothing-Changed-Everything/dp/1476756104/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1451873341&sr=8-1&keywords=seinfeldia">Seinfeldia: How the Show About Nothing Changed Everything</a> and a history of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mary-Lou-Rhoda-Ted-History/dp/1451659202/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345127707&sr=8-1&keywords=mary+and+lou+and+ted+and+rhoda">Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted</a>. Her new book is <a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/when-women-invented-television-jennifer-keishin-armstrong?variant=32243113197602">When Women Invented Television</a>.

Don de Silva

Don de Silva is a Buddhist Chaplain, environmentalist, and formerly an official of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

JoAnna Hardy

JoAnna Hardy practices in the Theravada Insight tradition, with a focus on teaching meditation in communities dedicated to seeing the truth of how racism, gender inequality, and oppression go hand in hand with the compassionate-action teachings in Buddhism. She is leader of the Lion’s Roar Online Learning course, How to Cultivate a Loving Heart: The Buddhist Practice of Metta.

Paul Swanson

Paul L. Swanson is a research fellow at Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan, and the editor of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies.

Liên Shutt

Rev. Keiryu Liên Shutt is a Dharma heir in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. Born into a Buddhist family in Vietnam, she began her meditation practice in the Insight tradition. She was a founding member of the Buddhists of Color in 1998. Her Zen trainings began at Tassajara and then continued monastically in Japan and Vietnam. While she has placed her trust and faith in Soto Zen, she continues to enjoy the deep silence of Insight practices and has completed retreats in America and Thailand. Please go to <a href="https://awakeinlife.org/">AwakeInLife.org</a> for info on the sitting group and other events.

Mitchell Ratner

Mitchell Ratner is founder of the Still Water Mindfulness Practice Center in Maryland.