CONTRIBUTORS

is a full-time bureaucrat with the City of Seattle, a part-time filmmaker, an occasional economist, and a member of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship for several years.

is a priest in the (Chinese Hua Yen/Pure Land) White Cloud Buddhist Society and one of the founding members of EcoSangha Seattle. A freelance writer who travels widely in Asia, he serves as Secretary on the board of the Northwest Dharma Association.

is a Dharma practitioner and essayist who is serving a life sentence in the Washington State Reformatory in Monroe, WA.

is a Buddhist Meditation Teacher. She is Executive Director of Samden Ling in Portland and a board member of the Northwest Dharma Association.

is President of the Northwest Dharma Association.

is Co-Executive Director of Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism and creator of Earth Sanctuary. Founder and president of BrandSolutions, Inc., he has long been an avid designer and builder of environmental artworks and is the author of “Secrets of Sacred Space”.

is a guiding teacher for the British Columbia Insight Meditation Society. A retired family physician, she teaches meditation and mindfulness-based stress reduction classes in Canada and the United States.

has been a Buddhist since 1993, a member of Sakya Monastery since 2001, is on the Board of Advisors, and loves introducing people to Tibetan Buddhism and the Sakya heritage. He serves on the board of the Northwest Dharma Association.

is Immediate Past President of the Northwest Dharma Association.

is a former president of the Northwest Dharma Association and current editor of the NW Dharma News.

Kevin Farias, Kathy Forsythe, Joel Fraser, Rick Harlan, Rachel Lewis, Jacqueline Mandell, Julie Welch, Jason Wirth, Wonderlane, and courtesy of Earth Sanctuary.
Cover Photo: Gretchen Graber.

Julie Welch, Summer 2011.

Stephen Schildbach.