Archives: Authors

Wayne Shorter

Wayne Shorter (1933-2023) was a jazz brass player and composer, and practiced Nichiren Buddhism as a member of the Buddhist association Soka Gakkai International.

Herbie Hancock is a jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer. He practices Nichiren Buddhism as a member of the Buddhist association Soka Gakkai International. His memoir, Possibilities, was released in 2015.

Anne Seidlitz

Anne Seidlitz has been a writer in documentary film for almost two decades. Her work has appeared on PBS's American Masters, Great Performances, and American Experience series, among others, as well as screened theatrically. Her most recent writing credit is Becoming Frederick Douglass (now streaming on PBS), produced by Firelight Media and Maryland Public Television. Anne has also worked extensively with independent filmmakers, and her particular area of focus has been on Black American social, political, and cultural history. Anne began practicing Buddhism in the early 1980s while still in college, and has been a lead writer on the Chogyam Trungpa Digital Library project since 2020. She is currently writing a book about the jazz pianist Hampton Hawes.

John Mifsud

John Mifsud was born on the Island of Malta and identifies as Arab-American. He has practiced Insight Meditation since 2001 and graduated from the Community Dharma Leaders Training Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center where he served on the Board of Directors for seven years. John has extensive retreat experience and has practiced throughout Asia. He is the founding member of the Deep Refuge Sangha for Alphabet Brothers of Color in Oakland. He has taught internationally with a special interest in delivering mindfulness tools to marginalized communities.

Jonathan C. Gold

Jonathan C. Gold is Professor of Religion and Director of the Center for Culture, Society and Religion at Princeton University. His research focuses on Indian and Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, and he is the author of Paving the Great Way: Vasubandhu’s Unifying Buddhist Philosophy (2015) and The Dharma’s Gatekeepers: Sakya Paṇḍita on Buddhist Scholarship in Tibet (2007), and co-editor of Readings of Śāntideva’s Guide to Bodhisattva Practice (2019). His research focuses on Buddhist approaches to language, learning, self-cultivation and ethics (which are connected), and seeks to show how Buddhism is relevant to modern conversations. In his current work, he is trying to craft Buddhist tools for contemporary society and politics.

C. Pierce Salguero

Pierce Salguero is a transdisciplinary scholar of health humanities who is fascinated by historical and contemporary intersections between Buddhism, medicine, and cross-cultural exchange. He has a Ph.D. in History of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2010), and teaches Asian history, medicine, and religion at Penn State University’s Abington College, located near Philadelphia. He is the author of Buddhish: A Guide to the 20 Most Important Ideas for the Curious and Skeptical and A Global History of Buddhism & Medicine, both published in 2022.

Seth Zuihō Segall

Seth Zuihō Segall, Ph.D. is a Zen Buddhist priest and clinical psychologist who teaches at Pamsula Zen of Westchester and the New York Insight Meditation Center, is a contributing editor for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, and the science writer for the Mindfulness Research Monthly. Dr. Segall’s publications include The House We Live In: Virtue, Wisdom, and Pluralism (2023), Buddhism and Human Flourishing (2020), Living Zen: A Practical Guide of a Balanced Existence (2020), Encountering Buddhism: Western Psychology and Buddhist Teachings (2003) and recent chapters in The Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Meditation (2022), and the Handbook of Positive Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality (2022). His blog, <a href="https://www.existentialbuddhist.com/2023/01/youre-going-to-carry-that-weight/">The Existential Buddhist</a>, contains commentary on Buddhist philosophy, ethics, history, art, meditation, and social engagement

Richard Kahn

Richard Kahn, PhD, MS, RD, is a Dharma Teacher in the Kwan Um School of Zen and teaches meditation in two synagogues in NYC. He writes about meditation and dairy foods. He has a nutrition practice specializing in infants and young children.

Sister Peace

Sister Peace is a nun in the Plum Village tradition. Recently, her service and practice have been focused on the children jailed in the Shelby County Juvenile Detention Center in Memphis.

Kathy Yep

Kathy Yep is a practitioner in the Plum Village tradition and a qi gong teacher/student in the Wild Goose tradition of Yan Mei Jun lineage. She is also longtime resident of Monterey Park and a tenured full professor of Asian American Studies at Pitzer College of the Claremont Colleges. For more information: <a href="http://www.kathyyep.com">www.kathyyep.com</a>