Journey to the Field: Brazil
I just returned from Sao Paolo and Porto Alegre in Brazil. I visited various developments in slum areas and a wonderful birthing center. I will give reports on my journey to Brazil in upcoming...
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All you need is a little faith
The West Bank’s Rabbi Menachem Froman has the solution to the conflict ‘All you need is a little faith,’ says the Tekoa leader, who isn’t averse to quoting Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. More reports from...
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The 1st Bethlehem Walk
Quiet Walking Listening Circles  Women Leading Change  5 October 2012 Manger Square, Bethlehem People of all nationalities and faiths are invited to join us in an event of solidarity for peace in the Holy...
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Journeys to the Field, Rwanda, September 20-26, 2012
Journeys to the Field Experience what Bernie Glassman is doing around the world to wage peace and build hope. Join him and an intimate group (at most 5) of supporters in making children laugh,...
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Prayer to Avert War by Khenpo Gangshar Wangpo
Last night, I finished translating the Prayer to Avert War by Khenpo Gangshar Wangpo (gang shar dbang po, 1925-1959). Khenpo Gangshar resided at Shechen (zhe chen) and, later, Surman (zur mang) Monastaries, both in...
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Challenging Questions for Engaged Buddhism
This post originally appeared on The Jizo Chronicles on September 30, 2010, written by Maia Duerr ———————- Okay, we’re going to mix it up a bit today. Lest you think that I am a...
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Auschwitz II — Zen Peacemakers’ retreat, June 2010, from Jiko
I did not go to Auschwitz to find out what happened there, nor to understand the worst that the human mind can do. Nor did I go in sympathy with the suffering of the...
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Building the Buddha of the Future: Community
Panelists at Symposium Discuss Socially Engaged Sanghas “The Buddha of the future,” said moderator Alan Senauke, speaking at the Symposium for Western Socially Engaged Buddhism and paraphrasing Vietnamese Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, “will...
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Beyond — Zen Peacemaker retreat at Auschwitz June 2 to June 12, 2010
The setting is beautiful, walking to Birkenau in the early morning. The sun is already bright and very hot. In the flat narrow fields striped with different greens, heads of grain grow and glisten,...
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Burma's Saffron Revolution Comes To Symposium
Socially Engaged Buddhism at the Edge: Burmese Monks Speak of Torture, Imprisonment Two veterans of the “Saffron Revolution” — the peaceful revolt in August and September, 2007 of saffron-robed Buddhist monks in Burma, who...
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