Dharma and Justice Dialogues: Taking Responsibility for Social Violence
How do Buddhists address social and political violence when there can often be an insistence within our traditions that doing so disrupts harmony, takes sides, and creates division? How do we ensure our traditions do not join in the reproduction of structural oppression and inequity? How do we work diligently for justice without entrenching separation and anger in our minds and hearts?
These and other questions will frame the virtual conversation between Lama Justin Von Bujdoss and Rev. Kosen Gregory Snyder in Union’s ongoing Dharma and Justice Dialogues. Event sponsored by The Thích Nhất Hạnh Program for Engaged Buddhism. An RSVP is required, Zoom details will be shared with registrants closer to the event.
This event is also available via stream on the Union Facebook page and YouTube channel.
About Lama Justin von Bujdoss
Lama Justin von Bujdoss is an American vajrayana Buddhist teacher, writer, and the is a co-founder of Bhumisparsha an experimental Buddhist sangha along with Lama Rod Owens. He is the author of Modern Tantric Buddhism: Authenticity and Embodiment in Dharma Practice published by North Atlantic Books, contributor to Buddhism and Whiteness: Critical Reflections published by Lexington Books. Lama Justin serves as the Executive Director of Chaplaincy and Staff Wellness for NYC Department of Correction where he also serves as Staff Chaplain and has experience as a hospice and hospital chaplain as well. He was ordained as a repa, a lay tantric yogin in the tradition of Milarepa, by His Eminence Gyaltsab Rinpoche. Lama Justin has presented on Buddhist practice at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, University of Chicago, Wellesley, Columbia and has led retreats at a variety of dharma centers and is passionate about helping to create the conditions for authentic embodied tantric Buddhist spiritual practice in the West.
More of his work can be seen at: justinvonbujdoss.com and https://bhumisparsha.org.