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Category: Ecodharma

Calling All Bay Area Ecosattvas!

Posted on May 8, 2021May 8, 2021 by Karin

This summer Bay Area folks from different Buddhist sanghas and traditions are coming together for collective action in support of local efforts to rematriate indigenous lands, Stop Line 3, Rainforest Action Network, Black Lives Matter, and the international call for Land Back, including the The Red Deal. We will be holding a regular meditation and…

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An interesting chapter in engaged Hawaiian Buddhism

Posted on May 3, 2021May 3, 2021 by Karin

Thanks to Engaged Jodo Shinshu Buddhism on Twitter, I just learned of this interesting chapter in engaged Hawain Buddhism–involving an indigenous woman, meeting with Anagarika Dharmapala, Bo tree, establishment of Japanese Buddhism in Hawaii, support of Mahabodhi Society, and Land Back! Read more in these short wikis (1, 2), and in the book by Patricia…

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Climate, Corona, and Collapse: The Dharma was Made for these Times

Posted on January 24, 2021January 28, 2021 by Karin

[This is an article I wrote for the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies’ Insight Journal in March of 2020. The original version, a pdf with bibliography, and many articles by other authors relevant to socially and ecologically engaged Buddhism, visit Insight Journal here.] ‘Collapse’ is a scary word. From the Latin prefix col-, meaning ‘together,’ and…

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Decolonizing Dependent Arising

Posted on January 23, 2021January 30, 2021 by Karin

This is a short paper presented at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 25, 2019. It outlines the limitations of the categories of “philosophy” and “religion” for examining Buddhist thought and practice and the generative ecological possibilities of decolonizing our approach to the study of Buddhism in the American academy. In…

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