Deer Park Buddhist Center, founded in 1975, is a full-scale monastic teaching center and community of monks, nuns and laypersons in Wisconsin committed to practicing Tibetan Buddhism — the only one of its kind in the Midwest. Geshe Tenzin Dorjee is the center’s abbott.

Buddhist Council of the Midwest, based in Evanston, Ill., is an organization for all Buddhist groups in Chicago and the Midwest area. The council is inclusive of all three Buddhist traditions. Its purpose is to foster the learning and practice of Buddhism, to represent the Midwest Buddhist community in matters affecting its membership and to […]

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.

The University of Virginia Tibet Center provides a forum for faculty, students and staff from diverse fields, united by their expertise and interest in Tibet. Tibet Center affiliated faculty span multiple departments, including anthropology, art, computer science, East Asian languages, literatures and cultures, history, politics and religious studies. The director is David Germano.

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.

Louis Mitsunen Kyogen Nordstrom is an ordained monk in both the Rinzai and Soto schools who teaches at the Hokori-Ji Temple, a Zen community located in Lakeland, Florida. He has taught at Columbia Unviversity, Wesleyan University, New York University and more. He is the editor of Namu Dai Bosa: A Transmission of Zen to America, and […]

Magnolia Grove Monastery is a residential monastery in Batesville, Miss., and is simultaneously Magnolia Village, a mindfulness practice meditation center in the tradition of Plum Village founded by Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh.

Sumi Loundon Kim is the Buddhist chaplain at Duke University and teacher for the Buddhist Families of Durham. She has published two anthologies about young Buddhists: Blue Jean Buddha and The Buddha’s Apprentices. Originally brought up in a Soto Zen community, she has been following the Theravada lineage for the past 20 years.

Henepola Gunaratana is the founding abbot of the Bhavana Society, community of monastics and lay people dedicated to the practice of Theravadan Buddhism. Born in rural Sri Lanka, he has been a monk since age 12 and took full ordination at age 20 in 1947. He has written several books, including Mindfulness In Plain English […]