Linked with Oddom Van Syvorn – Cambodia.
One of the main purposes of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship is to build and support the socially engaged Buddhist community around the world. We do so by creating training, education, and practice opportunities for socially engaged Buddhists, supporting BPF chapters and affiliates, and generating Buddhist social analysis on issues such as race, gender, class, and social and economic justice (homepage).
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About: Buddhist Peace Fellowship’s BPF open-hearted engagement with the world is expressed through expanding programs in the United States and Asia. Through BPF, Buddhists of many different traditions are developing individual and group responses to socially conditioned suffering.
BPF draws on diverse sources to accomplish this work:
The wisdom and compassion of Buddhist tradition and practice
Contemporary North American peace and social justice movements
Other nonviolent, progressive, faith-based movements for social change
Through our worldwide network of members, we strive to bring peace where there is conflict, to promote communication and cooperation among Buddhist sanghas, and to alleviate suffering wherever possible.
BPF members work to promote democracy and human rights around the globe, particularly focusing on Bangladesh, Burma, Vietnam, and Tibet. We collaborate closely with our friends at the International Network of Engaged Buddhists INEB, in Thailand. Other BPF-sponsored work includes:
- BASE, our community-based volunteer service and activist training program;
- Prison Program, involved in prison advocacy/education, ministry, correspondence, and networking;
- Turning Wheel, our quarterly journal;
- Participation in vigils, demonstrations and letter-writing campaigns;
- Developing resources and guidelines to address issues of abuse within Buddhist communities.
Click here to learn more about the programs BPF is involved in.