Michaela Haas

Michaela Haas, PhD, is an international reporter, lecturer, and consultant. She is the owner of HAAS live!, an international coaching company which combines her experience in media with mindfulness training. With a PhD in Asian Studies, she has taught at UC Santa Barbara and the University of the West as a visiting scholar in Religious Studies. She has been studying and practicing Buddhism for almost twenty years. Since the age of sixteen, she has been working as a writer and interviewer for major nationwide German newspapers, magazines and TV stations including hosting her own successful nationwide talk show. In America, her articles have appeared in the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and numerous online media. (Bio courtesy of DakiniPower.com. Photo by Gayle Landes)

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Women in Western Buddhism

An excerpt from Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in…

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