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1. Thich Nhat Hanh

   Author of Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life, Being Peace, Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha

2. Pema Chödrön

   Author of When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times, Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living (Shambhala Classics), The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving Kindness

3. Sharon Salzberg

   Author of Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness, Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience, A Heart as Wide as the World

4. Chogyam Trungpa

   Author of Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness

5. Jack Kornfield

   Author of A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path, The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace

6. Joseph Goldstein

   Author of Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom, Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation (Shambhala Classics), One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism

7. Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

   Author of Mindfulness in Plain English, Updated and Expanded Edition, Mindfulness in Plain English, Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness: Walking the Buddha's Path

8. Jon Kabat-Zinn

   Author of Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life, Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness, Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness

9. Lama Surya Das

   Author of Awakening the Buddha within: eight steps to enlightenment, Awakening to the Sacred: Creating a Personal Spiritual Life, Letting Go of the Person You Used to Be: Lessons on Change, Loss, and Spiritual Transformation

10. Sandy Boucher

    Author of Discovering Kwan Yin, Buddhist Goddess of Compassion, Turning the Wheel: American Women Creating the New Buddhism, Opening the Lotus: A Woman's Guide to Buddhism

11. Charlotte Joko Beck

    Author of Everyday Zen: Love & Work, Nothing Special: Living Zen

12. Sylvia Boorstein

    Author of It's Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness, Don't Just Do Something, Sit There: A Mindfulness Retreat with Sylvia Boorstein, That's Funny, You Don't Look Buddhist: On Being a Faithful Jew and a Passionate Buddhist

13. Stephen Levine

    Author of A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last, A Gradual Awakening, Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart

14. Larry Rosenberg

    Author of Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation, Living in the Light of Death: On the Art of Being Truly Alive

15. Shunryu Suzuki

    Author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen

16. Stephen Batchelor

    Author of Buddhism Without Beliefs, Verses from the Center: A Buddhist Vision of the Sublime

17. Nyanaponika Thera

    Author of The Heart of Buddhist Meditation: Satipatthna : A Handbook of Mental Training Based on the Buddha's Way of Mindfulness,, Great Disciples of the Buddha: Their Lives, Their Works. Their Legacy

18. Robert Aitken

    Author of Taking the Path of Zen, A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku & Zen, Encouraging Words: Zen Buddhist Teachings for Western Students

19. Ayya Khema

    Author of Visible Here and Now: The Buddhist Teachings on the Rewards of Spiritual Practice, I Give You My Life

20. Tara Brach

    Author of Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha