Ann Gleig
Ann Gleig (she/her) is a Professor of Religion and Cultural Studies at the University of Central Florida. Her research specialty is Buddhism in America with a focus on race, gender, and sexuality. She is author...
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Gail Aylward
Gail Aylward left her life in London in the early 1990s when she became disillusioned with her banking career, and started practicing meditation and yoga in India and in Europe. After some years, as...
David Loy
David Robert Loy is a professor, writer, and Zen teacher in the Sanbo Zen tradition of Japanese Zen Buddhism. He is a prolific author, whose essays and books have been translated into many languages....
Amy Langenberg
Amy Paris Langenberg is Professor of Religious Studies at Eckerd College in St Petersburg, Florida. Her research focuses on South Asian Buddhism with a special focus on gender, sexuality, and women’s monasticism. She uses...
Boaz Feldman
Boaz B. Feldman is a Dharma teacher, researcher and clinician whose work integrates deep contemplative practice with education and mental health. In his early twenties he ordained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand (with...
Hogen Bays
Hogen Bays began his Zen practice in 1968 with Philip Kapleau and served on the residential staff at the Zen Center of Rochester in Rochester, New York, until 1975. From 1980 to 1984, he...
Santacitta Bhikkhuni
Santacitta Bhikkhuni Theri was born in Austria and did her graduate studies in Cultural Anthropology, focusing on dance, theatre and ritual. She also worked in avant-garde dance theatre as a performer and costume designer....
Charlie Morley
Charlie Morley is a teacher of lucid dreaming, shadow work and mindfulness of dreams and sleep. He is also a bestselling Hay House author, two times TED speaker and Mindvalley lucid dreaming coach. Charlie...
Vajradarshini
Vajradarshini is known for her down-to-earth approach to Dharma practice, combining depth and clarity with warmth and humour. Ordained into the Triratna Buddhist Order in 1997, she is a well-loved and respected teacher within...
Donald Rothberg
Donald Rothberg, Ph.D. is a member of the Teachers Council at Spirit Rock Center. He teaches retreats and groups on concentration and insight meditation practice, lovingkindness practice, transforming the judgmental mind, mindful communication, working...