It seems like the world is crumbling all around us. Everywhere there is tremendous pain, suffering, hatred, and hurt. So how do we live in the midst of it all without internalizing fear, bitterness, and enmity? How do we cultivate the peace necessary to remain engaged with and transform the tumult? Grounded in the Sikh and Buddhist traditions respectively, Simran Jeet Singh and Kosen Gregory Snyder will be in conversation around these questions.

Livestreaming of this program will be available here: Generating Peace in a World on Fire

This program is brought to you by the Thích Nhất Hạnh Program for Engaged Buddhism. Previous conversations can be found here.

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Simran Jeet Singh Ph.D. Simran is a professor of history at the historic Union Theological Seminary and national bestselling author of The Light We Give: How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your Life. He is Senior Advisor for the Aspen Institute’s Religion and Society Program and also hosts Wisdom & Practice, a new podcast by The Aspen Institute and PRX.

Rev. Kosen Greg Snyder, Osho is the Senior Director and Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at Union Theological Seminary, where he oversees the Master of Divinity degree program in Buddhism and Interreligious Engagement as well as the Thích Nhất Hạnh Program for Engaged Buddhism. 

Professor Snyder is an ordained Zen Buddhist priest and dharma-transmitted teacher in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki. He co-founded and is currently the senior resident priest at the Brooklyn Zen Center and Ancestral Heart Zen Monastery in Millerton, NY. He is one of the founders of the Buddhist Action Coalition, whose mission is to organize and inspire compassionate Buddhist initiatives in advancing social, economic, and environmental justice through advocacy and nonviolent direct action.

Professor Snyder’s academic and practice interests include socially engaged Buddhism, the intersections of contemplative interreligious dialogue and social action, the relationship between Buddhist liberatory practices and social transformation, and the exploratory juxtaposition of Buddhism with liberation theology, Earth-centered cosmologies, and Western continental theory, particularly phenomenology and post-structuralism. Professor Snyder is currently working on a book exploring expressions of social justice rooted in Buddhist dharma, moral epistemology, and praxis. He has been published in Buddhist and other periodicals, including Buddhadharma, Lion’s Roar, Shambhala Sun and the New York Times.