Socially Engaged Buddhist Links

• Socially Engaged Buddhist Organizations and Networks--general

• Residential Dharma Centers with a Focus on Social Engagement

• Prison Dharma

• Magazines 

Socially Engaged Buddhist Organizations and Networks

 

Buddhist Peace Fellowship  Oldest socially engaged Buddhist nonprofit organization in the US. Networking, activism, publications, international and domestic human rights work, volunteer program, and prison advocacy and ministry.

Amida Trust - UK - a corps of people seriously interested in developing humanitarian projects based on Buddhist principles to help overcome suffering in the world.

International Network of Engaged Buddhists [Thailand] - commitment to global community based on the universal truths of wisdom and compassion. INEB's areas of concern have centered on alternative education, non-violence, human rights, the environment, women's issues, alternative development, and the integration of spirituality and activism.

Network of Engaged Buddhists   UK - Buddhists and others in the United Kingdom engaged in peaceful social and political action to create a better society.

Zen Peacemaker Community - an interfatith community, training and empowering peacemakers from around the world. Includes Zen Peacemaker Order, Peacemaker Institute, Peacemaker Villages and multiple resources for training.

Residential Dharma Centers with a Focus on Social Engagement

New Dharma Community (Berkeley, CA)

Ordinary Dharma/Manzanita Village (Warner Springs, CA)

Ordinary Dharma~Manzanita Village is a diverse and inclusive Buddhist-Inspired community, based on Buddhist teachings on social action, mindfulness and meditation practice, deep ecology, & creative non violence~for the Celebration and Healing of the Individual, Society, & the Earth.

Upaya Zen Center (Santa Fe, NM)

Prison Dharma

Buddhist Peace Fellowship Prison Program [U.S.] - committed to transformation of the prison industrial complex through advocacy, networking, ministry, and correspondence with people in prisons and jails.

Angulimala - Buddhist Prison Chaplaincy [UK] - Provides Buddhist chaplaincy within prisons as well as resources and networking.

Engaged Zen Foundation [U.S.] - Project dedicated to teaching zen in the prison system.

The Human Kindness Foundation, founded by Bo and Sita Lozoff, is a non-profit organization which stresses a way of life based upon three common principles taught by the great sages of all religions: Simple living, a dedication to service, and a commitment to personal spiritual practice.

Insight Prison Project - The Insight Prison Project (IPP) is a non-profit community organization dedicated to creating and conducting effective programs for inmate rehabilitation and to support the reinstatement of rehabilitation as the core operating principle within the penal system. Our programs integrate a process of transformative re-education that clarifies the foundation on which skillful decision making is based.

Prison Dharma Network [US]- Supports prisoners in the practice of contemplative disciplines, with emphasis on the meditation practices of the various Buddhist traditions. PDN also promotes the Buddhist path of wakefulness and non-aggression as an ideal means of self-rehabilitation and transformation.

ZMM Prison Project  [US] - Project of Zen Mountain Monastery that supports prisoners through Buddhist ministry and correspondence. Has nationwide network of volunteers.

Magazines

Turning Wheel

Buddhadharma: The Practitioners Quarterly

Shambhala Sun    

Tricycle

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