🗓️ Sundays, Oct. 11 to Nov. 15, 2026 @ 12:00pm–1:30pm ET
📍Online
Learn how Black Buddhists have woven together the teachings of the BuddhaDharma with the Black radical tradition — not as a contradiction, but as a profound and coherent vision of freedom. Political freedom. Psychological freedom. Collective freedom.
Presented with the Institute of Buddhist Studies
🗓️ April 7, 2027 @ 4:00pm PST / 7:00pm EST
📍Online
This conversation series brings Black and Asian-American Buddhist scholars and practitioners together for honest dialogue about what it means to practice Buddhism in America today. These conversation partners aim to create bridges and ask nuanced questions — about ancestral practices and culture, about appropriation and erasure, and about what it means to evolve the Buddhist tradition to meet the current moment.
Presented with the Institute of Buddhist Studies
🗓️ March 3, 2027 @ 4:00pm PST / 7:00pm EST
📍Online
This conversation series brings Black and Asian-American Buddhist scholars and practitioners together for honest dialogue about what it means to practice Buddhism in America today. These conversation partners aim to create bridges and ask nuanced questions — about ancestral practices and culture, about appropriation and erasure, and about what it means to evolve the Buddhist tradition to meet the current moment.
Presented with the Institute of Buddhist Studies
🗓️ February 3, 2027 @ 4:00pm PST / 7:00pm EST
📍Online
This conversation series brings Black and Asian-American Buddhist scholars and practitioners together for honest dialogue about what it means to practice Buddhism in America today. These conversation partners aim to create bridges and ask nuanced questions — about ancestral practices and culture, about appropriation and erasure, and about what it means to evolve the Buddhist tradition to meet the current moment.
Presented with the Institute of Buddhist Studies
🗓️ January 20, 2027 @ 4:00pm PST / 7:00pm EST
📍Online
This conversation series brings Black and Asian-American Buddhist scholars and practitioners together for honest dialogue about what it means to practice Buddhism in America today. These conversation partners aim to create bridges and ask nuanced questions — about ancestral practices and culture, about appropriation and erasure, and about what it means to evolve the Buddhist tradition to meet the current moment.
Presented with the Institute of Buddhist Studies
🗓️ November 4, 2026 @ 4:00pm PST / 7:00pm EST
📍Online
This conversation series brings Black and Asian-American Buddhist scholars and practitioners together for honest dialogue about what it means to practice Buddhism in America today. These conversation partners aim to create bridges and ask nuanced questions — about ancestral practices and culture, about appropriation and erasure, and about what it means to evolve the Buddhist tradition to meet the current moment.
Presented with the Institute of Buddhist Studies
🗓️ October 21, 2026 @ 4:00pm PST / 7:00pm EST
📍Online
This conversation series brings Black and Asian-American Buddhist scholars and practitioners together for honest dialogue about what it means to practice Buddhism in America today. These conversation partners aim to create bridges and ask nuanced questions — about ancestral practices and culture, about appropriation and erasure, and about what it means to evolve the Buddhist tradition to meet the current moment.
Presented with the Institute of Buddhist Studies
🗓️ September 30, 2026 @ 4:00pm PST / 7:00pm EST
📍Online
This conversation series brings Black and Asian-American Buddhist scholars and practitioners together for honest dialogue about what it means to practice Buddhism in America today.
Presented by Brooklyn Zen Center
🗓️ Sept. 13-10, 2026 @ 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET
📍Online
What does it mean to take up Buddhist practice as an act of liberation for all beings? Brooklyn Zen Center welcomes Dr. Santosh Raut (Maitriveer Nagarjuna) alongside guests, Cornel West, Rima Vesely-Flad, and William Edelglass for this six-week online course.
How do we use our energy to confront overwhelming dehumanization and force? I am excited to announce a series of community-based courses that I will offer beginning in September which will address this question and other topics to help sustain healing and social justice work.