Watch the Tricycle Web Exclusive Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman: A Conversation, click here.

Jeff Bridges is scheduled to perform and present at the Symposium for Western Socially Engaged Buddhism.

What is Dudeism?

According to dudeism.com, a website dedicated to deploying the…

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Watch it at Danny fisher’s blog

Bikkhu Bodhi, who is a leader of Buddhist Global Relief, will be participating in a panel and leading a discussion on the Roots of Socially Engaged Buddhism at…

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To watch part 1 of this conversation filmed by Tricycle, click here.



To watch part 2 of this conversation, click here.



To learn more about the Symposium for Socially Engaged Buddhism this August in Massachusetts, where Jeff is scheduled to perform, click… Continue

A rich debate has emerged on the Bearing Witness Blog regarding whether

it would be accurate to consider Shakyamuni Buddha a socially engaged

activist? This emerged after a review of opposing viewpoints from two

blogs: While the author of a recent post

on Digital Tibetan Buddhist Altar argues that “Twist it and wring it

and pound it any way you like. Buddha did… Continue

The May issue of Bearing Witness: the Free Newsletter on Western Socially Engaged Buddhism explores the role of online technology in the…

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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review is partnering with theZen Peacemakers to promote Socially Engaged Buddhism by filming interviews with presenters of the The First Symposium for Western Socially Engaged Buddhismhttp://www.prisondharmanetwork.net/profiles/blog/new, which ZP will host this summer, and posting them on… Continue

Adding to the shift towards online teaching events and learning communities already taken by Buddhist magazines Tricycle and Shambhala Sun as well as groups like the Peacemaker Institute and Prison Dharma Network, two other purely online Dharma media groups are…

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On Sunday, March 28, 2010, Sensei Eve Myonen Marko inducted Judith Myoki Brier as the third senior to the Montague Farm Zendo, the practice center of the Zen Peacemakers Mother House. . The ceremony finished a 4-day…

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Pat Coffey, MEd, Senior Teacher, began his meditation practice over 30

years ago and has taught meditation since 1996. He studied with

numerous Asian and Western teachers in the Theravada, Tibetan and Zen

traditions. Pat is founder of IMCC and the co-founder of the Blue Ridge

Prison Project...read… Continue

Episode Description: We’re joined this week by one of the pioneers of the socially engaged Buddhist movement, Zen Master Bernie Glassman. Although he grew up in a family that valued social action, after some years of Zen practice he had an experience that amplified his calling to serve those in need. At that point he made a vow to feed all hungers. We speak about the interconnection—and accordingly to Bernie, the inseparability—between contemplative practice and… Continue

I vividly remember my first night of teaching. I drove alone into the prison parking lot with trepidation and excitement. The drizzling damp

November evening gave the lights of the facility an especially eerie

glow and the shimmering concertina wire and block house architecture

conjured images of death camps. Experiencing some fear and nervousness

as the guards searched me for the first time, I wound my way through

the… Continue

We continue of our month of focus on Buddhist activism with a call to action. This April, Symposium presenter Sister Claire Carter and the Nipponzan Myohoji order of Nichiren Buddhism are joining peace activists organizing walks across the… Continue

Melody Ermachild Chavis is a member of the Berkeley Zen Center, and former board member of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship and a founding member of BPF's prison project. As a private investigator for 20 years, she works to defend people charged with capital crimes or who have been sentenced to death...read more

Our justice system isn't set up for transforming our karma. It's not about reconciliation between people, it's not about restoring the community to balance, bringing wholeness, after someone

has offended. It's patriarchal, and hierarchical and it does not bring

us together to talk directly. One of the things that's wrong, is that

our system doesn't help either the victims or the offenders to reach

any kind of wholeness.

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During the month of April, we invite you to join us exploring Buddhist activism. This month's issue of the Bearing Witness Newsletter features peace, environmental and criminal justice activism. In the Bearing Witness Blog, we will highlight one article at a time from the issue of the newsletter, inviting your comments and… Continue

The prison issue of Bearing Witness: A Newsletter for Western Socially Engaged Buddhism (FREE subscription) contains stories of inspiring successes…

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