Taigen Dan Leighton

Taigen Dan Leighton is the Guiding Dharma Teacher at Ancient Dragon Zen Gate, Chicago and the author of <em>Faces of Compassion: Classic Bodhisattva Archetypes and Their Modern Expression</em>.

Gary Gach

Gary Gach

Gary Gach has hosted Zen Mindfulness Fellowship for a dozen years at Aquatic Park, San Francisco. Author of <em>The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Buddhism, </em>and editor of <em>What Book!? Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop, </em>his current title is <em>Pause … Breathe … Smile</em>.  His <a href="http://LinkTr.ee/GaryGach">links</a> and <a href="http://GaryGach.com">author page</a> are online.

Bodhin Kjolhede

Bodhin Kjolhede is abbot of the Rochester Zen Center and dharma successor to the late Roshi Philip Kapleau.

Gelek Rimpoche

Gelek Rimpoche

Gelek Rimpoche (1939-2017) was the founder of Jewel Heart, a Tibetan Buddhist Center located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the author the bestselling <i>Good Life, Good Death. </i>

Gelek Rinpoche

Gelek Rinpoche is a lama in the Gelukpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He is the spiritual director of Jewel Heart, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which has chapters in the United States, Singapore, Malaysia, and The Netherlands. He is the author of Good Life, Good Death: Tibetan Wisdom on Reincarnation.

Martin Baumann

Martin Baumann is co-editor of Westward Dharma: Buddhism beyond Asia (University of California Press) and professor of religions at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland.

Chris Lemig

Chris Lemig

Chris Lemig is the author of The Narrow Way: A Memoir of Coming Out, Getting Clean and Finding Buddha.