birth_place birth_date article_title name occupation
new york city 5 august 1952 sharon salzberg
 sharon salzberg author , meditation teacher
sharon salzberg

sharon salzberg -lrb- born 1952 -rrb- is a `` new york times '' best selling author and teacher of buddhist meditation practices in the west .
in 1974 , she co-founded the insight meditation society at barre , massachusetts with jack kornfield and joseph goldstein .
her emphasis is on vipassanā -lrb- insight -rrb- and mettā -lrb- loving-kindness -rrb- methods , and has been leading meditation retreats around the world for over three decades .
all of these methods have their origins in the theravada buddhist tradition .
her books include `` lovingkindness : the revolutionary art of happiness '' -lrb- 1995 -rrb- , `` a heart as wide as the world '' -lrb- 1999 -rrb- and `` real happiness - the power of meditation : a 28-day program '' -lrb- 2010 -rrb- , which was on the the new york times best seller list in 2011 .
