Faculty

Bhante Buddharakkhita

Buddhism & Interreligious Engagement


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biography

Venerable Bhante Buddharakkita is a Lecturer/Adjunct Faculty of Interreligious Engagement at Union Theological Seminary.

He was ordained as a Buddhist monk by the late Venerable U Silananda in 2002 at the Tathagata Meditation Center in San Jose, California. Founder and Abbot of the Uganda Buddhist Center in Uganda, Bhante is the author of Planting Dhamma Seeds: The Emergence of Buddhism in Africa, which tells the story of his religious and spiritual work in Uganda, Africa.

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