Bhante Henepola Gunaratana is the founding abbot of the Bhavana Society. Born in rural Sri Lanka, he has been a monk since age 12 and took full ordination at age 20 in 1947. He came to the United States in 1968.
Bhikkhu Bodhi is an American Buddhist monk, originally from New York City, who holds a PhD in philosophy from Claremont Graduate School. In late 1972 he received monastic ordination in Sri Lanka, where he lived for over twenty years. From 1984 until 2002 he was the editor for the Buddhist Publication Society in Kandy, and has translated numerous texts from the Pali Canon into English, among them the complete Samyutta Nikaya. He now lives at Chuang Yen Monastery in upstate New York and teaches there and at Bodhi Monastery in northwest New Jersey.
Born in New York City in 1952, Sharon Salzberg experienced a childhood involving considerable loss and turmoil. An early realization of the power of meditation to overcome personal suffering determined her life direction. Her teaching and writing now communicates that power to a worldwide audience of practitioners. She offers non-sectarian retreat and study opportunities for participants from widely diverse backgrounds.
Christopher Titmuss, a former Buddhist monk in Thailand and India, teaches Awakening and Insight Meditation around the world. He is the founder and director of the Dharma Facilitators Programme and the Living Dharma programme, an online mentor programme for Dharma practitioners. He gives retreats, participates in pilgrimages (yatras) and leads Dharma gatherings. Christopher has been teaching annual retreats in Bodh Gaya, India since 1975 and leads an annual Dharma Gathering in Sarnath since 1999.
Joseph first became interested in Buddhism as a Peace Corps volunteer inThailand in 1965. Since that time he has studied and practiced different forms of Buddhist meditation under eminent teachers from India, Burma and Tibet. He has been leading insight and loving kindness meditation retreats worldwide since 1974.
Mindfulness/VipassanaMindfulness/VipassanaThe teacher forum is a webpage that highlights a recognized meditation teacher. Currently the teacher is Michele McDonald. Please visit the website of the meditation center she co-founded at: Vipassana Hawai
