MARTIN HAKUBAI MOSKO, ASLA (American Society of Landscape Architecture), founded the landscape design and construction firm Marpa & Associates in 1974. He studied painting and Sanskrit at Yale and has apprenticed with Japanese master gardeners. Mosko is a Zen monk and heir to the lineage of Tenzan Keibun Otokawa Roshi. In addition to his responsibilities at Marpa, he is abbot of Hakubai Temple and travels the country, lecturing on garden design and meditation.

ALXE NODEN was educated at Cornell and Boston University School of Law and studied Tibetan Buddhism with Tara Tulku Rinpoche. An accomplished writer and photographer, she has been with Marpa since 1993.