Helen Tworkov

Helen Tworkov is founding editor of ''Tricycle: The Buddhist Review'', the first and only independent Buddhist magazine, and author of ''Zen in America: Profiles of Five Teachers'' (North Point Press, 1989; Kodansha, 1994). 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 most recently assisted him in the writing of ''Turning Confusion into Clarity: A Guide to the Foundation Practices of Tibetan Buddhism'', from Shambhala Publications under its Snow Lion imprint. Provided by Wikipedia