Helen Tworkov is the founding editor of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, the first and only independent Buddhist magazine, and author of Zen in America: Profiles of Five Teachers. She first encountered Buddhism in Asia in the 1960s and has studied in both the Zen and Tibetan traditions. Since 2006, she has been a student of the Kagyu and Nyingma Tibetan master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche and has assisted him in the writing of In Love with the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying and Turning Confusion into Clarity: A Guide to the Foundation Practices of Tibetan Buddhism.

Tergar International Founder Cortland Dahl is a Buddhist scholar and translator, a meditation teacher, and a collaborator on various scientific studies. After receiving a Master’s Degree in Buddhist Studies, he lived for eight years in India and Nepal, where he spent long periods in solitary retreat in the Himalayan foothills and taught courses on Buddhism, meditation, and Tibetan language at Kathmandu University’s Center for Buddhist Studies. Cortland has published numerous translations on meditation and Buddhist philosophy, as well as scientific articles on meditation research and the cultivation of well-being.”