Noah Levine is a Buddhist teacher based in Los Angeles and author of the books Dharma Punx: A Memoir and Against the Stream. He is the founding teacher of Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society, with two centers in Los Angeles and more than 20 affiliated groups around North America. As a counselor known for […]

Tetsuden Kashima is a Professor of American ethnic studies and and an adjunct professor in the department of sociology at the University of Washington. He is the author of Buddhism in America: The Social Organization of an Ethnic Religious Institution. His research interests include World War II American and Canadian internment camps, Asian-American sociology and […]

Peter Hershock is an educational specialist at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. His research includes examining contemporary issues from Buddhist perspectives.

Tenpa Gyaltsen is chancellor of Nalandabodhi, an international Buddhist organization with centers across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Asia, South America and Europe under the direction of  Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche. Formerly, Gyaltsen was professor of religious studies at Naropa University, a college founded in the Buddhist tradition in Boulder, Colorado, specializing in Buddhist studies, Tibetan language […]

Robert Bushwell is a professor of Buddhist studies in the University of California, Los Angeles department of Asian languages and cultures, the Irving and Jean Stone Chair in humanities at UCLA and the founding director of the university’s Center for Buddhist Studies and Center for Korean Studies. He is considered to be the premier Western […]

Mark Blum is a University of California, Berkeley professor and Shinjo Ito distinguished chair in Japanese studies. He specializes in Pure Land Buddhism throughout East Asia and also works in the area of Japanese Buddhist responses to modernism, Buddhist conceptions of death in China and Japan and historical consciousness in Buddhist thought.

Walter Truett Anderson is an independent writer, lecturer, political scientist, social psychologist and author of Open Secrets: A Western Guide to Tibetan Buddhism and The Next Enlightenment, which highlights the similarities between Western constructivist thought and Eastern spiritual traditions such as Buddhism.

Jimmy Yu is the Sheng Yen assistant professor of Chinese Buddhism at Florida State University. His research interests include Buddhism and Chinese religions, the history of the body in Chinese religions, Buddhist material culture, systems of Buddhist meditation practice and Chan and Zen Buddhism.

Daniel Stuart is an assistant professor of religious studies at the University of South Carolina. He is a scholar of South Asian religions, literary cultures and meditation traditions who specializes in the texts and practices of the Buddhist tradition.