Light Up Peace: Vesak Day Celebration at Washington DC
Raymond Lam
13 May 2024
A Vesak commemoration in Washington DC to celebrate diversity, foster unity and understanding, and embrace unity, peace, and hope
Eight Weeks of Engaged Buddhism: A Dharma Bum Temple Program
Kassidy Evans
19 March 2024
Dharma Bum Temple’s Engaged Buddhist Training Program provides an eight-week long initiative ending with refuge and vow ceremonies
Skillfully Bringing Buddhism to the West: San Diego’s Dharma Bum Temple, Part Two
Kassidy Evans
20 February 2024
How a local Buddhist temple in San Diego is bringing the heart of authentic Buddhist practice to American seekers
Skillfully Bringing Buddhism to the West: San Diego’s Dharma Bum Temple, Part One
Kassidy Evans
2 February 2024
How a local Buddhist temple in San Diego is bringing the heart of authentic Buddhist practice to American seekers
An Interview with the Head Dharma Master of Won Buddhism USA
Grace Song
30 January 2024
Venerable Juksanim shares his positive outlook and plans for the development of Won Buddhism in the United States
Asian American Buddhists Commemorate Anti-Asian Violence and Murders with “May We Gather 2024”
Raymond Lam
29 January 2024
May We Gather collective to commemorate racially-motivated shootings with a pilgrimage in March and Jan-Feb online speaker series
Delta Beta Tau at San Diego State University: The Nation’s First Buddhist Fraternity
Kassidy Evans
11 January 2024
Kassidy Evans tells the story of the first Buddhist fraternity in an American university and its unique contribution to American Buddhism
From Nichiren to Ikeda: The Soka Gakkai’s Socially Engaged Buddhism
Dipen Barua
27 December 2023
From Nichiren to Daisaku Ikeda, this is the story of one of the largest and most influential lay Buddhist organizations in the world
Book Review: The Making of American Buddhism
Hozan Alan Senauke
26 August 2023
Hozan Alan Senauke explores the insights and implications for Buddhism in the US raised in a remarkable new book by Scott A. Mitchell
Cambodian Buddhist Community in Maine Launches Temple Fundraiser
Justin Whitaker
16 August 2023
Community hopes that new Watt Samaki Temple will be a vibrant home to Cambodian Buddhism and culture, and a welcoming center for the community
Robert Aitken: From POW to Zen Master
Victor M. Parachin
15 February 2023
Looking back on the life of an American immersed in Zen: a representative of the post-war union of Japanese Zen and American culture
Buddhist Scholar Duncan Ryuken Williams Wins Prestigious Grawemeyer Religion Prize
Justin Whitaker
14 December 2021
Williams documented the sorrows, hopes, and lives of many of the 125,000 people of Japanese ancestry imprisoned in the United States during WWII