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The program, hosted by the UC Climate Resilience Initiative, will run on weekdays from February 24 to March 7.

An award-winning journalist and advocate of autism rights, Silberman was a longtime contributor and friend to Lion’s Roar.

After 20 years, the Rubin will close its doors this fall to pursue a “museum without walls” approach.

The study measured the effects of the New York Zen Center’s twelve-month “Contemplative Medicine Fellowship” on burnout among medical professionals.

“On this solemn and joyful occasion,” writes Plum Village, “we would like to invite our sangha friends around the world to gather and practice together.”

Daisaku Ikeda, the president of Soka Gakkai International (SGI), a global Buddhist association originating in Japan that practices the teachings of Nichiren Buddhism, died of natural causes on November 15 at his home in Tokyo, a statement by Soka Gakkai confirms. He was 95. Ikeda was also the honorary president of Soka Gakkai, the parent association of SGI, which was founded in Japan in 1930. He was inaugurated as the third president of Soka Gakkai in 1960, and went on to serve as president for…

The fellowship aims to recognize Black dharma teachers and leaders, providing them with resources to “carry on their profound work of offering healing and support through a Buddhist lens for African-descendant communities in the U.S.” Dharma Relief, an organization founded by Buddhist teacher and founder of the Tallahassee Chan Center, Guo Gu, has announced the selected cohort of five Black Dharma Teacher/Leader Fellowships as part of their second project, “Dharma Relief 2: Healing Racial Trauma…

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“I Have Arrived, I Am Home” comes from filmmaker Max Pugh and showcases footage of the late Thich Nhat Hanh’s journey home to Vietnam in 2018.

A new exhibition, “Sutra and Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarceration,” opens at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) on February 26.

Over 85 Buddhist leaders have signed an open letter addressing antisemitism following the January 15 synagogue attack at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas.

“In this sacred moment, we invite you to join us in generating powerful energy of peace, compassion, and mindfulness to offer our beloved teacher,” Plum Village writes.

Thich Nhat Hanh, the Vietnamese Buddhist monk and founder of the Engaged Buddhism movement, died today in his home country of Vietnam. He was 95.

Today, we celebrate renowned Buddhist activist and scholar Robert Thurman’s 80th birthday.

Each Friday, we share three topical longreads in our Weekend Reader newsletter. This week, LionsRoar.com’s associate editor Lilly Greenblatt looks at the bittersweet lessons of winter.

Miracles happen every day. Lilly Greenblatt looks at the supernatural and (seemingly) ordinary magic of Buddhism.

Chapman University has suspended its January travel course to Shambhala Mountain Center in Colorado following allegations reported in a Chapman News student journalism story about events that occurred during last years’ course. Every January, Chapman University offers the interterm travel course “Mind, Self, & Society in Tibetan Buddhism,” in which students travel to Shambhala Mountain Center for a Buddhist retreat. In the video report published in December by Chapman News, it was reported that…

On November 28, Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh traveled from Huế, Vietnam to Thailand for a medical check-up at a hospital in Bangkok.

“All beings who have made their home in this tree, please find other lodgings by Monday,” the letter reads. The Berkeley Buddhist Monastery in California wrote a letter to a hundred-year-old tree in a backyard neighboring their center that was scheduled to be cut down on November 18, Good News Network reports. The tree, a Douglas Fir, was in poor health with “gangly” limbs that could unexpectedly fall on passersby. The Reverend of Berkeley Buddhist Monastery, Heng Sue, knew the tree was going to…

An independent investigation into allegations against the Tibetan Buddhist teacher Sogyal Rinpoche, founder of the Rigpa community, has found that he committed acts of “serious physical, sexual, and emotional abuse.”