Contributors
- Contributors
Suzy Balliett is a Daoist priestess and medical qigong doctor who teaches at the Daoist Dipper Arts School and Blue Heron Tai-Chi in Colorado. She is also an Occupational Therapist and researches Biomagnetic Therapy. Websites include www.biomagnetic.org and www.blueherontaichi.com. Email: biomagnetic@icloud.com.
Dessislava Damyanova teaches Eastern Philosophy at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. Her research interests focus on Chinese Daoism, traditional Indian and Chinese culture, intercultural dialogue and philosophy of religion. She is the author of The Philosophy of the Way in Ancient China: The Sage and the Dao in the “Zhuangzi” (Sofia Unipress, 2018). She is also a member of the Bulgarian Haiku Union. Email: dessislavadd@yahoo.com.
Georges Favraud is director of the Institute for Chinese Bodily Arts (Inacc) in Toulouse (France). He is also an associate researcher at the Center for Social Anthropology section of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Solidarities, Societies, and Territories and the French Institute for Research on East Asia. His research focuses on the contemporary situation of Daoism in relation to Chinese medicine and popular religion. Email: gfavraud@gmail.com.
Lennert Gesterkamp, Ph.D., trained in sinology at Leiden University, is author of The Heavenly Court: Daoist Temple Painting in China, 1200–1400 (Brill, 2011) and various articles on Chinese painting, Daoism, and East-West exchange. He is currently a researcher at the International Institute of Asian Studies of Leiden University. Email: lgesterkamp@hotmail.com.
Lonny S. Jarrett, M.Ac., author of Nourishing Destiny: The Inner Tradition of Chinese Medicine, The Clinical Practice of Chinese Medicine, and Deepening Perspectives on Chinese Medicine has been a student of Chinese medicine since 1980. He is a graduate of the Traditional Acupuncture Institute, holds a master’s degree in neurobiology, and is a fourth-degree black belt in Taekwondo. Lonny maintains his clinical practice in West Stockbridge, Mass. See www.lonnyjarrett.com. Email: lonny@nourishingdestiny.com.
Zornica Kirkova, Ph.D., is currently a librarian at the East Asian Department of the State Library of Berlin. She is the author of Roaming into the Beyond: Representations of Xian Immortality in Early Medieval Chinese Verse (Brill, 2016). Her research interests include classical and early medieval Chinese literature, Daoism and Daoist literature. Email: zornicakirkova@seznam.cz.
John Leonard is an Australian poet and author. He was born in Britain and studied at Oxford University before moving to Australia to complete a PhD in English literature. He has six published collections of poetry and has written on literary, ecological, political and Daoist topics. He practises internal martial arts as well as he can. Email: john@jleonard.net
Abraham Shue Yan Poon 潘樹仁 teaches in the Institute of Active Aging at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His main research interests include traditional Chinese culture, religious thought, Daoist philosophy, and qigong. He set up authentication for The Holo-cosmic Qigong Nine-stage Cultivation System. He has ten published books and more than 130 papers. Email: abrahampoon20@gmail.com.
Șerban Toader earned his PhD in philology at Bucharest University in 2010. He now works as lecturer and researcher in the Department of Chinese Studies at Transilvania University. His research focuses on the Daode jing and the new religious movement of Maitreya Great Tao as well as on contemporyr seekers and their communities. E-mail: serban.toader@daoism.ro.
Yanning Wang received her Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis. She is associate professor of Chinese language and literature at Florida State University. Her research interests include pre-modern Chinese literature and culture, late imperial (Ming-Qing) women’s writing, and Chinese literature and Daoism. Email: ywang14@fsu.edu.
Zhang Wei is a doctoral candidate in the Science of Religion at Nanjing University. Her work centers on Daoism and Chinese traditional culture, especially of the Song and Yuan dynasties. E-mail: zhangweifuping@163.com.
Zhongxian Wu is a lifelong Daoist practitioner as well as the author of numerous articles and fifteen books (including five in Chinese) on China’s ancient wisdom traditions. Since 1988, he has instructed tens of thousands of students throughout China, North America and Europe. He synthesizes wisdom and experience for beginning and advanced practitioners, as well as for patients seeking healing, in his unique and...
