Ethan Nichtern is an American author and Buddhist teacher. His book ''The Road Home: A Contemporary Exploration of the Buddhist Path'' (
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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- North Point, 2015), which was selected as one of Best Books of 2015 by ''
Library Journal
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'', and as one of 9 Books That Define 2015 by
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. His other books include ''The Dharma of The Princess Bride'' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017) and ''One City: A Declaration of Interdependence'' (
Wisdom Publications
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2007).
He is also the founder of the Interdependence Project, a nonprofit organization for secular Buddhist study as it applies to activism, arts and media projects, and Western psychology. He is based in New York City.
Nichtern has discussed the relevance of Buddhism in the 21st century on
ABC/Yahoo News,
CNN
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, NPR ABC News,
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, and ''
The New York Times
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''.
Nichtern is the son of musician/composer
David Nichtern
David Nichtern (born 19 February 1948) is an American songwriter and television composer, soundtrack artist and Buddhist teacher of the Shambala tradition of Chögyam Trungpa.
Biography
Born and raised in Manhattan, Nichtern is the son of Sol Nic ...
, who is also a Buddhist teacher, and Janice Ragland, a painter who later became a psychotherapist. He was born in Los Angeles, California in 1978 and raised in New York City. In 2016, he married Marissa Dutton
and the two separated and later divorced in 2021.
References
External links
About Ethan from Nichtern's official website
Overcoming Spiritual Bypassing a Dharma Talk for ''
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review'' (May 2015)
Press release detailing Nichtern's book deal with Farrar, Straus and Giroux for ''The Road Home''
1978 births
Living people
American Buddhist spiritual teachers
American Buddhists
Writers from Los Angeles
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