Black & Buddhist : what Buddhism can teach us about race, resilience, transformation & freedom

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

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. -- from publisher

Table of Contents: In Honor of George Floyd / Pamela Ayo Yetunde & Cheryl A. Giles --
Foreword / Gaylon Ferguson --
They Say the People Could Fly : Disrupting the Legacy of Sexual Violence through Myth, Memory, and Connection / Cheryl A. Giles --
The Dharma of Trauma : Blackness, Buddhism, and Transhistorical Trauma Narrated through Three Ayuhuasca Ceremonies / Lama Rod Owens --
Turning Toward Myself / Sebene Selassie --
Belonging / Lama Dawa Tarchin Phillips --
Voluntary Segregation : The Paradox, Promise, and Peril of People of Color Sanghas / Pamelo Ayo Yetunde --
From Butcher to Zen Priest : Radical Transformation through Bloodletting / Gyōzan Royce Andrew Johnson with Pamela Ayo Yetunde --
On Being Lailah's Daughter : Blessons from Umieversity on Actualizing Enlightenment / Kamilah Majied --
Wholeness is No Trifling Matter : Race, Faith, and Refuge / Ruth King.
Conclusion, notes, about the editors, contributor bios

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