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A Buddhist monk whose teaching connects the Thai Forest way of practice with everyday life. His guidance emphasizes ethical conduct, simplicity and the practical cultivation of wisdom and compassion.
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Ajahn Sucitto
Modern teacherA British-born Theravāda monk in the Thai Forest tradition, trained with Ajahn Sumedho and former abbot of Cittaviveka (1992–2014). His teachings explore embodied meditation, ethical practice and the cultivation of the heart. His Dhamma Tracks newsletter shares reflections and recorded teachings.
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A senior teacher in the Thai Forest tradition. His recorded teachings emphasize intuitive awareness, meeting experience as it is and bringing wisdom and compassion into ordinary life.
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Andrea Fella
Modern teacherTeaching archive and official information.
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Anushka Fernandopulle
Spirit Rock residential teacherA Spirit Rock retreat teacher trained in the Theravāda tradition, including four years of full-time practice in the United States, India and Sri Lanka. She teaches insight and lovingkindness retreats, bringing attention to creative life, social engagement and everyday urban experience.
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A Buddhist nun trained primarily in the lineage of Ajahn Chah, who has also received teachings in the Shechen lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Her practice and teaching include care for the Earth.
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A Buddhist nun at Karuna Buddhist Vihara whose path included family life, software development and interfaith ministry before monastic training. She received full bhikkhunī ordination in 2012.
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A teacher of Tibetan Buddhist meditation and founder of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies. His teaching includes śamatha (shamatha), attention training and Dzogchen. His writing and research explore Buddhist contemplative practice and the study of consciousness.
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Ben Connelly
Modern teacher · cross-tradition interpretationA Sōtō Zen teacher whose books explore Yogācāra and the Flower Garland teachings. These connections show philosophical ideas traveling between traditions, not a separate Yogācāra ordination lineage.
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A Theravāda monk and founder of Satipanya Buddhist Retreat. His teaching centers on vipassanā in the Mahāsi tradition, following training with Sayadaw U Janaka and Sayadaw U Pandita.
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Founding abbot of the Bhavana Society and author of Mindfulness in Plain English. His teaching brings together insight, loving-friendliness and concentration within the Noble Eightfold Path.
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Bhikkhu Anālayo
Scholar-monk · comparative studyA teacher and scholar of early Buddhist meditation who compares discourses across textual traditions. Listed with early schools as a modern interpreter, not a successor to every historical lineage.
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An American Buddhist monk, translator and editor of major collections of Pāli discourses. His teaching includes close study of early Buddhist texts; he also founded Buddhist Global Relief.
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Bonnie Duran
Spirit Rock residential teacherA graduate of the IMS/Spirit Rock retreat teacher training who leads short and extended retreats at both centers. Her work also draws on Indigenous traditions and community well-being; she is a public-health researcher and University of Washington professor emeritus.
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Carol Wilson
Insight meditation teacherAn IMS guiding teacher who has taught insight and lovingkindness retreats since 1986. Her background includes practice as a Buddhist nun in Thailand and study with Sayadaw U Pandita and Ashin U Tejaniya. She regularly teaches extended retreats.
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An insight meditation teacher on the Gaia House teacher council and a guiding teacher for One Earth Sangha. She collaborated with Rob Burbea in developing and teaching Soulmaking Dharma.
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Co-founder of Gaia House and a guiding teacher at IMS. Her teaching brings early Buddhist practice into contemporary life, with attention to compassion, insight and Buddhist psychology.
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An insight meditation teacher whose guidance connects liberation with everyday life. His teachings address meditation alongside livelihood, relationships, consumer culture and care for the environment.
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Devin Berry
Insight meditation teacherAn IMS guiding teacher whose practice centers on insight and lovingkindness meditation. Practicing since 1999, he has undertaken extended silent retreats and emphasizes the liberation of marginalized communities alongside individual practice.
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A meditation teacher whose work makes mindfulness accessible across backgrounds. Her teachings include natural awareness, socially engaged practice and bringing mindfulness into family and everyday life.
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A teacher of insight meditation, daily-life practice and socially engaged Buddhism. His work connects meditation with ethical relationships, psychology and responding to suffering in society.
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A Tibetan Buddhist teacher, traditional Tibetan physician and holder of the Yuthok Nyingthig lineage. He co-founded Pure Land Farms in Topanga and teaches internationally. His books explore Yuthok Nyingthig practice and Sowa Rigpa, the Tibetan medical tradition.
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Drikung Kagyu teacher and founder of the Garchen Buddhist Institute in Arizona. His teachings connect bodhicitta and compassion with Mahāmudrā practice. The Institute offers recorded video teachings, and the Drikung lineage publishes a public transcript of his Mahāmudrā instructions.
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Guiding teacher at IMC and IRC, authorized in insight meditation and Sōtō Zen.
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Gullu Singh
Spirit Rock residential teacherA Spirit Rock retreat teacher and graduate of its four-year teacher training. Also an attorney, he teaches Buddhist and secular meditation, with particular experience bringing mindfulness into professional life and the legal community.
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Guo Gu
Modern teacher & scholarA Chan teacher, author and scholar who connects Buddhist teaching with concrete methods of practice. His official site is an entry to books, teachings and intensive retreats.
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Guy Armstrong
Insight meditation teacherAn insight meditation teacher who has led retreats since 1984, including long retreats at IMS. He trained as a monk in Thailand with Ajahn Buddhadasa and wrote Emptiness: A Practical Guide for Meditators.
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Har-Prakash Khalsa
Modern teacher · mindfulness & integrationLongtime student of Shinzen Young and creator of Cultivating the Jewel of Mindfulness. His teaching connects meditation with psychological growth, relationships and everyday life. Offers online coaching, courses and retreat guidance, with an emphasis on intermediate and advanced practitioners.
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Henry Shukman
Contemporary Zen teacher and authorA Sanbō Zen teacher and spiritual director emeritus of Mountain Cloud Zen Center. His books include One Blade of Grass and Original Love; The Way app offers his guided meditation teaching.
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An insight meditation teacher who emphasizes present-moment awareness, non-harming and freedom from habitual reactivity. His archive includes retreat talks, meditation guidance and reflections on everyday practice.
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Jack Kornfield
Modern insight teacherCo-founding teacher of IMS and Spirit Rock, with training in Asian monastic traditions and clinical psychology.
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James Baraz
Modern insight teacherCo-founding teacher of Spirit Rock and creator of Awakening Joy. Leads insight meditation and teaches the cultivation of well-being in daily life.
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Jessica Morey
Modern insight teacherMeditation teacher and contemplative coach who completed the Insight Meditation Society’s teacher training in 2021 and co-founded Inward Bound Mindfulness Education. Her core practice is insight meditation, alongside training in Tibetan traditions. Her teaching connects mindfulness and compassion with relationships and daily life, drawing on attachment-informed and somatic approaches.
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An insight meditation teacher whose guidance emphasizes bringing wisdom and compassion into both formal practice and everyday life. Her archive includes retreats, Dharma discussions and guided meditations.
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A Zen teacher whose work connects contemplative practice with compassionate care, social engagement and the realities of dying. Explore her teachings through Upaya’s public archive.
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John Makransky
Lama · Nyingma / DzogchenOrdained as a lama in the Nyingma Dzogchen tradition in 2000. He developed Sustainable Compassion Training with Paul Condon and other collaborators, adapting Tibetan Buddhist practices of compassion and awareness for people of diverse religious and secular backgrounds. His teaching explores receiving care, resting in awareness, and extending compassion into relationships and service. He co-authored How Compassion Works with Paul Condon.
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John Martin
Spirit Rock residential teacherA Spirit Rock retreat teacher who teaches insight, lovingkindness and LGBTQI-focused retreats. Teaching since 2014, he also helps lead the joint Spirit Rock/IMS teacher training. His background includes many years of hospice volunteering.
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Joseph Goldstein
Modern teacherA central voice in Western insight meditation. His “Why Meditate” teaching offers a sustained introduction to the purpose of practice.
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Kamala Masters
Insight meditation teacherA longtime IMS teacher and co-founder of the Vipassana Metta Foundation. Her training includes intensive practice with Anagarika Munindra and Sayadaw U Pandita, and ongoing study with Sayadaw U Tejaniya. She emphasizes clear, relaxed awareness and kindness.
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An insight meditation teacher and author trained with Gil Fronsdal and teachers in the United States and Asia. She offers retreats and sutta study, connecting classical Dharma with contemporary lay life.
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Lama Glenn Mullin
Lama · Gelug / VajrayānaTibetan Buddhist teacher, translator and author whose work brings together meditation practice and the writings of the Dalai Lamas. He studied with teachers from all four main Tibetan schools, especially Ling Rinpoche and Trijang Rinpoche. His teaching and books explore lamrim, lojong, the Six Yogas of Naropa and Kālacakra.
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An insight meditation teacher and core teacher at East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland. His background includes psychotherapy, practice in Southeast Asia and training as a Buddhist monk in Thailand.
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Leigh Brasington
Contemporary meditation teacherA student of Ayya Khema who began teaching retreats in 1997, Leigh Brasington teaches jhāna alongside insight practices. His books explore concentration, dependent origination, the gradual training, and the brahmavihāras.
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Founding and guiding teacher of The Mountain Hermitage in Taos. Her teaching draws on the Mahāsi and Pa-Auk lineages, including insight meditation, concentration and jhāna.
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An insight meditation teacher and author whose work includes meditation in nature. He leads retreats that connect sustained awareness with the natural world and everyday emotional life.
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Co-founder of Common Ground Meditation Center in Minneapolis. He teaches insight meditation, drawing on monastic practice in Myanmar and extended retreats at IMS.
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Mark Unno
Modern teacher & scholarA Shin Buddhist priest and scholar of Japanese Buddhism. His teaching offers a Western entry into Shin practice, while his scholarship also explores Shingon and Zen.
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Martin Verhoeven
Modern teacher & scholarA student of Hsuan Hua whose teaching includes the Avataṃsaka Sūtra at Berkeley Buddhist Monastery. A contemporary Western doorway into this scripture’s Chinese Buddhist reception.
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A meditation teacher with a background in mental-health research. His work includes retreat teaching and exploring the relationships between mindfulness, science and psychological well-being.
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Meido Moore
Contemporary Rinzai Zen teacherAlso known as Meido Roshi, the founding abbot of Korinji and guiding teacher of Rinzai Zen International. His teaching emphasizes embodied training within the Rinzai tradition; his books include Hidden Zen and The Rinzai Zen Way.
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Michael Taft
Modern teacherContemporary nondual meditation teacher and host of Deconstructing Yourself.
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A retreat teacher and co-founder of SanghaSeva. His teaching connects meditation, wisdom and compassion with ecological and humanitarian service.
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A Buddhist meditation teacher trained in jhāna and vipassanā with Pa-Auk Sayadaw and authorized through Spirit Rock. Her teaching includes compassion and contemplation; she also has a background in artificial-intelligence research.
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A Zen priest, author and former abbot of San Francisco Zen Center. His Everyday Zen teaching explores committed practice within family life, work and engagement with the wider world.
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A meditation teacher whose guidance combines embodied awareness and cultivation of the heart. His work also explores how Nonviolent Communication and somatic practice can support Buddhist training.
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An insight meditation teacher mentored by Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield at IMS and Spirit Rock. He leads retreats in North America and Europe, with teaching offered in French and English.
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An American Buddhist nun and teacher associated with Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia. A student of Chögyam Trungpa, she teaches meditation, lojong and meeting difficult circumstances with compassion. Her books bring Tibetan Buddhist teachings into everyday life, including the mind-training slogans in Start Where You Are.
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A Burmese meditation teacher trained under Shwe Oo Min Sayadaw. His guidance emphasizes awareness, understanding the mind and maintaining a wise attitude toward experience throughout everyday life.
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Founder of Insight Meditation South Bay and Bodhi Courses. She teaches concentration, jhāna and insight meditation, drawing on extended practice and training with Pa-Auk Sayadaw.
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Sharon Salzberg
Modern teacherKnown for teaching loving-kindness and meditation in everyday life. Her ten-minute guided practice offers a small, concrete way to begin.
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Shinzen Young
Modern teacher · cross-tradition approachDeveloper of Unified Mindfulness. His teaching emphasizes concentration, sensory clarity and equanimity, with roots in Buddhist practice including Shingon monastic training. Explore his books, See Hear Feel manuals, courses and YouTube archives in the teacher guide.
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Sister Chân Không
Modern teacherA monastic teacher and humanitarian whose work includes reconciliation and restoring communication. Especially relevant when Buddhist learning meets difficult family relationships.
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An insight meditation teacher and psychotherapist whose teaching emphasizes attention, kindness and a peaceful heart. She draws on family life and personal stories to explore practice in everyday relationships.
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A meditation teacher whose work brings together mindfulness, compassion and psychological understanding. Her teachings explore self-acceptance, emotional healing and awareness in everyday relationships.
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Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock residential teacherA Spirit Rock retreat teacher whose approach combines insight and lovingkindness meditation with attention to the body and Buddhist psychology. He spent a year as a monk in Myanmar with Sayadaw U Pandita and Pa Auk Sayadaw and teaches extended retreats and practice programs.
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Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Bön teacher · DzogchenFounder of Ligmincha International and a teacher of Bön meditation, Dzogchen, and dream and sleep yoga. His teaching includes body and breath practices and ways of bringing awareness into daily life. Ligmincha offers introductory meditation resources alongside courses and retreats with their own prerequisites.
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Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
Modern teacher & translatorA forest-tradition teacher and Pāli translator. His work includes practical breath instructions, translations of Pāli discourses and explanations of the Buddhist path.
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An influential Tibetan teacher of compassion and Buddhist philosophy. His introductory work with Thubten Chodron provides an approachable doorway to a much larger teaching tradition.
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An American Buddhist nun and coauthor of the Library of Wisdom and Compassion. The Abbey’s teachings present a systematic approach to ethics, compassion and wisdom.
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Tuere Sala
Modern insight teacherA guiding teacher at Seattle Insight Meditation Society and a member of Spirit Rock’s Guiding Teachers Council. She brings insight meditation into everyday urban life, with particular attention to practitioners navigating stress, past trauma or difficulty sitting still.
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Winnie Nazarko
Insight meditation teacherAn IMS guiding teacher invited to teach by Joseph Goldstein in 1998. Her approach emphasizes self-compassion, letting go, embodied awareness and equanimity, adapting meditation instructions to a practitioner’s circumstances and experience.
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An insight meditation teacher inspired by the Thai Forest tradition. He serves on the teaching councils of Gaia House and IMS and brings meditation into engagement with the ecological crisis.
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A teacher known for accessible meditation instruction. Tergar distinguishes open introductory meditation from its more advanced Buddhist training paths.
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A meditation teacher and co-founder of SanghaSeva. She leads silent retreats and gatherings that explore service as a spiritual practice and the expression of wisdom and compassion in the world.