Sharon Salzburg is a best-selling author who has written extensively on the subject of Eastern philosophy, specifically Buddhism. Much of her work has been focused on explaining aspects of Buddhism to a Western audience. She has written and taught a great deal on the subject of meditation, for instance. In 1974, Salzberg was one of the founders of the Insight Meditation Society, located at Barre in the US state of Massachusetts, a group she initially formed with Jack Kornfield, a teacher of the vipassana movement in American, and Joseph Goldstein. Salzberg would later go on to create the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies in 1989, again with Goldstein. In the mid-1990s she also established a long-term meditation retreat centre, again in Barre. However, it is for her writing that she is best known, not least for her 1995 publication, 'Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness'.