Knowing Animals: Buddhist and Posthuman Resources for a New Interspecies Ethics
A selected reading list from Janet Gyatso’s course.
Category: Buddhism
Paradise and the White Sky
Finding home with the Buddhist monastic tertöns and the Irish green martyrs. By Jordan L. Borgman
Caring for the Warming Valley of Abundance in West Sikkim, India
Seeing cardamom as a fellow member of the sacred landscape points to a future built on multispecies justice. By Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia
The Karma of a Nation
An eastward journey of Japanese American Buddhism helps us to reimagine the story of American identity and confront legacies of anti-Asian violence. By Duncan Ryūken Williams
The Dharma of Racial Justice
Mindfulness can help us lean into our subjective, embodied experiences of race, racism, and white supremacy so we might begin to disrupt these harmful legacies. By Rhonda V. Magee.
Encounters with the Possible
A Q&A with Charles Hallisey on his new book, Poems of the First Buddhist Women: A Translation of the Therigatha. By Sarah Fleming
The Deliciousness of Truth
Black and Buddhist: In the face of white supremacy, Buddhism reteaches us how to relate to truth and to one another. By Pamela Ayo Yetunde
A Full-Bodied Dharma
Black and Buddhist: Contributors to this volume take refuge in embodied practice and in vibrant community. By Judith Simmer-Brown
Freedom Doesn’t Happen in a Day
Four voices celebrate the publication of Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom. Buddhism offers practical tools to work through intergenerational trauma. By Cheryl A. Giles
Sacred, Ancestral Cries for Freedom
Black and Buddhist: The Eightfold Path finds resonance in the Black church. By Melissa Wood Bartholomew
The Man in the Tree
A psychiatric chaplain dwells in the silences that follow difficult questions, responding to Chris Berlin’s “A Jewel in the Lotus.” By Duncan Gasson-Gardner
People as Sacred Texts: Chaplaincy in the Margins
A hospital chaplain contemplates the First Noble Truth in response to Chris Berlin’s “A Jewel in the Lotus.” By Rebecca Doverspike
Doing by Not-Knowing
A hospital chaplain reflects on the wonder and intimacy of not-knowing, responding to Chris Berlin’s “A Jewel in the Lotus.” By Jill R. Gaulding
Can a Buddhist Monk Become a Chaplain?
A Buddhist monastic reflects on his chaplaincy training through the lens of Theravada Buddhism, responding to Chris Berlin’s “A Jewel in the Lotus.” By Bhante Kusala
A Jewel in the Lotus
The Buddha’s life, teachings, and response to human suffering inform practices of spiritual care in the hospital, and also in the classroom. By Chris Berlin
Buddhist Nun Leads Asia’s Fight for Gay Marriage
The Venerable Chao-hwei Shih uses the insights gained from meditation and Buddhist teaching to lessen the suffering of others. By Julia Lieblich
A Christian Pilgrim Along the Buddhist Way
S. Mark Heim’s Crucified Wisdom: Theological Reflection on Christ and the Bodhisattva. By Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
How Khmer Buddhists Reconstructed Identity and Community in the U.S.
Carol A. Mortland’s Cambodian Buddhism in the United States. By Chipamong Chowdhury
Buddhist Ethics
A selected reading list from Charles Hallisey’s course on Buddhist Ethics.
No Rescue
A crash that causes the death of a bicyclist haunts the driver for years and leads her to study Buddhism. By Shane Snowdon
