by Fran Hoag | May 27, 2021 | ICD Book Club
Nobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have survived more than fifty years of exile and the soul-crushing violence of oppression. Despite their hardships—or, as they would say, because of them—they are two of the most...
by Fran Hoag | May 14, 2021 | Announcements
Harvard Buddhist Community’s 2021 Buddhism and Race Speaker SeriesThursday, May 20 @4 pm PDT The fifth event in our monthly, virtual series features Chenxing Han in conversation with anthropologist Dr. Nalika Gajaweera. Chenxing is a Bay Area–based writer whose...
by Fran Hoag | Apr 25, 2021 | Announcements
Soto Zen Buddhist Association (SZBA) is honored to invite you to attend Unpacking Whiteness; exploring the delusion of race from a Buddhist perspective, a 4-session online course, led and facilitated by Crystal Johnson. More white people than ever before are waking up...
by Fran Hoag | Apr 20, 2021 | ICD Book Club
In The Book of Delights, one of today’s most original literary voices offers up a genre-defying volume of lyric essays written over one tumultuous year. The first nonfiction book from award-winning poet Ross Gay is a record of the small joys we often overlook in our...
by Fran Hoag | Mar 12, 2021 | ICD Book Club
Recognizing the importance of the subject, the challenge of diving into it, and the opportunity and need to explore our own experience and responses, we will be discussing only Chapter 5, “Embodiment”. While not wanting to limit the exploration or discussion, we felt...
