Shantum Seth received the ‘lamp transmission’ from Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh ordaining him as a Dharmacharya (Teacher of the Dharma) in 2001 and he has been teaching in India and across the world. He has also been leading pilgrimages ‘In the Footsteps of the Buddha' and other multi-faith and transformative journeys since 1988. He is considered the foremost guide to the sites associated with the Buddha and is a profound cultural interpreter.

He has been a Senior Advisor to the World Bank and advised the Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Tourism, Government of India. He worked in the corporate sector and later in social advocacy and development, fifteen years of which were with the United Nations Development Programme, managing programmes on Volunteer Promotion and Artisan Development across 16 countries, as also initiating the Endogenous Tourism programme in India.

He has contributed to a number of books including 'Walking with the Buddha', 'Planting Seeds… Sharing Mindfulness with Children', and 'Volunteers Against Conflict'. He has also been a consultant on films including 'Life of the Buddha' by BBC/Discovery, and 'The Story of India' made by BBC/PBS. He and his work have been featured in The New York Times, Newsweek, and National Geographic, besides many other publications in India.

His commitment to a cross-cultural understanding, with a mission of ‘Peace in Oneself, Peace in the World’ has led him to travel to more than 65 countries and nearly every state of India. Having lived in England, the USA and France (in a monastery) for over 14 years, he is now living with his wife, Gitanjali and daughters in Dehradun, in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas.

The Late Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh (October 11, 1926 – January 22, 2022) was a global spiritual leader, poet and peace activist, revered around the world for his pioneering teachings on mindfulness, global ethics and peace.

Ordained as a monk at the age of 16 in Vietnam, Thich Nhat Hanh soon envisioned a kind of engaged Buddhism that could respond directly to the needs of society. He was a prominent teacher and social activist in his home country before finding himself exiled for calling for peace.

In the West he played a key role in introducing mindfulness and created mindful communities (sanghas) around the world. His teachings have impacted politicians, business leaders, activists, teachers and countless others.

Stephen Batchelor was born in Scotland and educated in Buddhist monasteries in India, Switzerland and Korea. In 1972, at the age of nineteen, he settled in Dharamsala, and in 1974 he was ordained as a Buddhist monk in the Tibetan tradition and later traveled to Korea where he practiced as a Zen monk. Batchelor disrobed in 1985, when he moved to Devon, England to live and teach at the Sharpham Community and Gaia House. Stephen Batchelor has synthesized a distinctively Western Teaching style of Secular Buddhism, drawing from multiple Buddhist traditions. He is co-founder of Bodhi College. He currently lives in south-west France, with his wife, Martine.

His books include: The Awakening of the West: The Encounter of Buddhism and Western Culture, Buddhism Without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening, Verses from the Center: A Buddhist Vision of the Sublime, Living with the Devil: A Meditation on Good and Evil, Confession of a Buddhist Atheist and The Art of Solitude.

Roshi Joan Halifax, Ph.D., is a Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist, and pioneer in the field of end-of-life care. She founded the Ojai Foundation in 1979 and is the Founder, Abbot, and Head Teacher of Upaya Institute and Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She received her Ph.D. in medical anthropology in 1973 and has lectured on the subject of death and dying at many academic institutions and medical centers around the world. She received a National Science Foundation Fellowship in Visual Anthropology, was an Honorary Research Fellow in Medical Ethnobotany at Harvard University, and was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Library of Congress. She is on the board of Directors of the Mind and Life Institute.

Dharma Teachers including Sister Chan Dieu Nghiem, Brother Phap Dung, Brother Phap Lu, Brother Phap Hu, Brother Phap Lin, Brother Phap Lai, Sister Chan Hien Nghiem, Sister Chan Tue Nghiem, Sister Chan Lang Nghiem, Brother Chan Troi Bao Tang, Brother Chan Troi Pham Hanh lead journeys with us.

Andrew Olendzki, Ph.D., is a Buddhist Scholar and Teacher who was trained in Buddhist Studies at Lancaster University in England, as well as at Harvard and the University of Sri Lanka. He is currently the Director of the Mindfulness Studies program at Lesley University in Cambridge in the US. He was the first Executive Director of the Insight Meditation Society and helped establish and develop the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.

He has written, Untangling Self: A Buddhist investigation of who we really are and Unlimiting Mind: The radically experiential psychology of Buddhism.

Anne Cushman is an American teacher of yoga as exercise and meditation, a writer on Mindful Yoga, and a novelist. Her novel Enlightenment for Idiots was named by Booklist as one of the top ten novels of 2008. Cushman has also been an editor for Yoga Journal and Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

Tempel Smith teaches Mindfulness, Insight and mettā meditation with an emphasis on Buddhist psychology and mind-body awareness. He spent a year as a monk in Burma with Sayadaw U Pandita and Pa Auk Sayadaw. Tempel serves on the Spirit Rock Guiding Teachers Council, organizes the Dedicated Practitioners Program (DPP) and Living Dharma retreats for Spirit Rock, and teaches classes in the East Bay.

Fred Eppsteiner, the Founder and teacher of The Florida Community of Mindfulness, is a Dharma teacher in the lineage of Thich Nhat Hanh. He has been a student of Buddhism and a practitioner of meditation for over fifty years and has devoted himself to teaching the Dharma since 1996. Although Fred has practiced primarily in the Zen and Tibetan Buddhist lineages, he bases his teachings on the full breadth of Buddhist philosophical, psychological and meditative traditions.

Ajeer Vidya has been a senior member of the elite Indian Administrative Services and holds an M.Phil. degree in International Economic Relations from the International Institute of Public Administration in Paris. He is from the Buddhist region of Himachal Pradesh, though a large part of his career was spent in the eastern state of Tripura. He took early retirement from the Indian Government to dedicate himself to studying and sharing the Dharma in India, and now also runs an Information Technology business. Ajeer is an ordained member of the Order of Inter-being and facilitates one of the Thich Nhat Hanh's sanghas in Gurgaon/ Delhi. He is also on the Executive Board of Dzongsar Kyenste Rinpoche's Siddhartha's Intent Institute. Ajeer, a seasoned meditator and teacher, blends the Zen and Tibetan traditions of Buddhism effortlessly.

Bina Aranha graduated with Commerce honours from Delhi University. She is deeply involved with community work and the Catholic Church. She is an editor of the local residents' newsletter Samvada, and now helps edit over 30 such newsletters in Delhi/Noida. She is the Vice President of Buddhapath and has been with the organization since 1998. She enjoys interacting with people from different countries and backgrounds, sharing with them the unique character of Delhi and India. Her husband is President of an IT company in India and they have three grown up children.

The Late Bernie Glassman (January 18, 1939 – November 4, 2018) was an American Zen Buddhist Roshi and founder of the Zen Peacemakers (previously the Zen Community of New York), an organization established in 1980. In 1996, he co-founded the Zen Peacemaker Order with his late wife Sandra Jishu Holmes. Glassman was a Dharma successor of the late Taizan Maezumi-Roshi, and gave Inka and Dharma transmission to several people. Glassman was known as a pioneer of social enterprise, socially engaged Buddhism and "Bearing Witness Retreats" at Auschwitz and on the streets.