The Best Buddhist Writing 2010 - Melvin McLeod [129]
SHOZAN JACK HAUBNER is a pseudonym. He is a Zen practitioner living in the United States.
DZONGSAR JAMYANG KHYENTSE RINPOCHE was born in Bhutan and recognized as the main incarnation of the Khyentse lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. He supervises his traditional seat of Dzongsar Monastery in eastern Tibet and Buddhist colleges in India and Bhutan. He has founded three nonprofit organizations and established Buddhist centers in Australia, North America, and the Far East. He is the author of What Makes You Not a Buddhist and the director of the acclaimed films The Cup and Travelers and Magicians.
DZIGAR KONGTRÜL RINPOCHE is the founder of Longchen Jigmé Samten Ling, a mountain retreat center in Crestone, Colorado, where he lives with his wife, Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel, author of The Power of an Open Question. Dzigar Kongtrül Rinpoche is the author of It’s Up to You and Light Comes Through.
JOHN DAIDO LOORI ROSHI (1931–2009) was a dharma heir of the revered Zen Master Taizan Maezumi Roshi and received transmission in both the Rinzai and Soto lines of Zen. He was the founder of the Mountains and Rivers Order and the abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery in Mount Tremper, New York. He was the author of many books and an award-winning photographer and videographer.
DAVID LOY is one of contemporary Buddhism’s leading thinkers. His books include A Buddhist History of the West: Studies in Lack; The Great Awakening: A Buddhist Social Theory; and Money, Sex, War, Karma: Notes for a Buddhist Revolution. He spent the early part of 2009 in Jerusalem, contributing as a Buddhist scholar to a research project on Jewish mysticism in comparative perspective. A Zen practitioner for many years, he is qualified as a teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition of Japanese Zen Buddhism.
JARVIS JAY MASTERS is a prisoner on death row at San Quentin State Prison in California and a student of the late Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche. His first book, Finding Freedom: Writings from Death Row, described his conversion to and practice of Buddhism in prison. His second book, That Bird Has My Wings, excerpted here, is an autobiography.
YONGEY MINGYUR RINPOCHE is a teacher in the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. He teaches throughout the world, bringing together traditional Buddhist practice and contemporary culture and science, and has centers on four continents. His best-selling book, The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness, has been translated into over twenty languages. His most recent book is Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom, excerpted here.
SAKYONG MIPHAM RINPOCHE is the spiritual leader of Shambhala, an international network of Buddhist meditation and retreat centers. He is the son of the late Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and was recognized as the incarnation of the important Tibetan teacher Mipham Jamyang Gyatso Rinpoche. Sakyong Rinpoche teaches throughout North America, Europe, and Asia and is the author of the best-seller Turning the Mind Into an Ally and Ruling Your World.
THICH NHAT HANH is one of the world’s leading Buddhist teachers. He is a Zen Master, poet, and founder of the Engaged Buddhist movement. A social and antiwar campaigner in his native Vietnam, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967 by Martin Luther King Jr. He is the author of more than forty books, including You Are Here and Answers from the Heart, both excerpted here. Still teaching actively at the age of 84, Thich Nhat Hanh resides at practice centers in France and the United States.
ANDREW OLENDZKI, PhD, is the executive director and senior scholar at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies in Barre, Massachusetts. He is the editor of Insight Journal and the author of Unlimiting Mind: The Radically Experiential Psychology of Buddhism.
MARY PIPHER, PhD, is a psychologist and anthropologist whose special area of interest is how American culture influences the mental health