About Us
BPF in Action
Wholehearted Connection
Buddhist Peace Fellowship is a community of primarily dharma practitioners established to support socially engaged efforts of visionaries of compassionate social justice and dharma-based organizations for social change.
Mutual Liberation
Buddhist Peace Fellowship is a leader in socially engaged Buddhism, cultivating peace through sharing with others decades of experience, providing donors who value peacemaking to other organizations, and educating the public with dharma-centered views of social justice. We are here to assist in implementing projects that work toward ending suffering in the world.
A Voice for Change
Buddhist Peace Fellowship makes an effort to speak without anger and opposition for those who have been silenced by war, poverty, environmental disaster, genocide, and youth whose lives have been impacted by violence.
What is BPF?
Buddhist Peace Fellowship is a community of primarily dharma practitioners established to support socially engaged efforts of visionaries of compassionate social justice and dharma-based organizations for social change...
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Vision
The Buddhist Peace Fellowship envisions a future in which people from all backgrounds come into a heartfelt realization of our interconnection to each other and to the Earth. We believe that actions generated from this understanding will create societies guided by generosity, compassion, wisdom, and justice.
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History
In the late days of the 1960s — times I remember with embarrassing clarity — some of us imagined that the millennium had come thirty years early and that personal and social transformation were just around the corner. In 1968, Buddhist poet Gary Snyder wrote a challenging piece called “Buddhism and the Coming Revolution.”...
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Founders
In 1978, BPF was born at the Maui Zendo, co-founded by Nelson Foster and Robert and Anne Aitken. Robert and Nelson soon asked Ryo Imamura to join in forming a Buddhist Peace Fellowship, which at first was "just a group of friends with common concerns and no plans of getting bigger." Ryo and Bob...
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Board Members
Pete Shimazaki Doktor, Shahara Godfrey, Anchalee Kurutach, Phyllis Oscar, Marian Urquilla, Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey (President), Chris Wilson...
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Staff
Staff can be reached in our office at 510-655-6169. This is the number for all staff. No extensions...
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