Ajahn Brahm
Thai Forest Tradition
Ajahn Brahm is a British-born monk in the Thai Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah. He is abbot of Bodhinyana Monastery in Western Australia and is known for teaching with warmth, humour, and plain language.
Teachers
Teachers
The voices and lineages that inform this practice.
Jack Kornfield
Insight Meditation
Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma, and India. He is a founding teacher of the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock, and the author of A Path with Heart.
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation
Tara Brach is a psychologist and meditation teacher whose teaching centres on presence, compassion, and the practice of radical acceptance. She is the author of Radical Acceptance and Radical Compassion.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Jon Kabat-Zinn founded the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programme and is the author of Full Catastrophe Living. His work brought secular mindfulness into medicine and beyond.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Zen / Plum Village
Thich Nhat Hanh was a Vietnamese Zen monk, poet, and peace activist. He founded the Plum Village community and taught mindfulness as a way of living in the world, in everyday life.
Bhikkhu Bodhi
Theravāda
Bhikkhu Bodhi is a scholar-monk and translator of the Pali Canon. His translations and anthologies, including In the Buddha's Words, are widely used by practitioners and students.
Ven. Sik Hin Hung
Chan / Chinese Buddhism
Ven. Sik Hin Hung is a Chan monk and former director of the Centre of Buddhist Studies at the University of Hong Kong, where he taught and supervised research for many years.
Rick Hanson
Neuropsychology / Buddhist practice
Rick Hanson is a psychologist and meditation teacher who writes about the intersection of neuroscience and contemplative practice, most recently in Neurodharma.