Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom

Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom image
ISBN-10:

1611808650

ISBN-13:

9781611808650

Released: Dec 08, 2020
Publisher: Shambhala
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
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Description:

Leading African American Buddhist teachers offer lessons on racism, resilience, spiritual freedom, and the possibility of a truly representative American Buddhism.

Nautilus Book Award Gold Recipient.

Leading African American Buddhist teachers offer lessons on racism, resilience, spiritual freedom, and the possibility of a truly representative American Buddhism. With contributions by Acharya Gaylon Ferguson, Cheryl A. Giles, Gyozan Royce Andrew Johnson, Ruth King, Kamilah Majied, Lama Rod Owens, Lama Dawa Tarchin Phillips, Sebene Selassie, and Pamela Ayo Yetunde.


What does it mean to be Black and Buddhist? In this powerful collection of writings, African American teachers from all the major Buddhist traditions tell their stories of how race and Buddhist practice have intersected in their lives. The resulting explorations display not only the promise of Buddhist teachings to empower those facing racial discrimination but also the way that Black Buddhist voices are enriching the Dharma for all practitioners. As the first anthology comprised solely of writings by African-descended Buddhist practitioners, this book is an important contribution to the development of the Dharma in the West.


























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