In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, "Reimagine: A New Generation of Asian American Buddhists" will feature author Chenxing Han in conversation with...

This session will feature community and conversation with Fania E. Davis, author of our common read text, Race & Restorative Justice: Black Lives, Healing & US Social Transformation. Davis will reflect on restorative justice as a way forward for healing historical harm, personal harm, and racialized violence. She will be engaged in conversation with members of our community as we explore what restorative justice means for HDS and whether it is a way forward to help us realize our vision of an anti-racist and anti-oppressive HDS.

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The fourth event in the Harvard Buddhist Community Buddhism and Race Speaker Series features Dr. Ann Gleig, associate professor of religion and cultural studies at the University of Central Florida and author of American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity (Yale University Press, 2019). This talk traces the ways in which whiteness has functioned and limited Buddhist modernist convert lineages in North America. It outlines key attempts by Buddhists of Color to expose and overcome such whiteness such as the pioneering work of Zenju Earthlyn Manuel from the Soto Zen lineage and Larry Yang...

The hearth of Olmec civilization is located in the tropical lowlands of Mexico’s southern Gulf Coast region, in the majestic archaeological site of San Lorenzo. The inhabitants of this first Olmec capital developed a distinctive geopolitical territory and managed complex trade systems. The...

We will explore the roles we play as students, faculty, scholars of religion, staff, and members of the wider community in transforming mass incarceration and how restorative justice helps us to bring our full selves and our intersectional identities to this work. We will discuss the historical roots and contemporary implications of mass incarceration and our collective responsibility to address this crisis.

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Please join us for the second monthly event in the Harvard Buddhist Community's 2021 Buddhism and Race Speaker Series. February's event features Rhonda Magee. Rhonda’s talk, entitled “Dismantling White Supremacy, Healing Humanity: The Dharma of Racial Justice,” invites and offers a reconsideration of the...

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