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Buddhist Analysis of Social and Political Issues (general)
July 2007: Entering a New Dharma Gate
by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, BPF Executive Director
January 2006: A Declaration of Interdependence
by Alan Senauke and other BPF members (first paper in the Responding with Compassion essay series)
July 2005: Love, Justice, and Radical Non-Doing
by Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey, BPF Board Member
February 2004: What About the Elections?
by Alan Senauke, BPF Senior Advisor
August 2003: The Empire Strikes Out
by Alan Senauke, BPF Senior Advisor
August 2003: Zen Activism, Personal Transformation, and Global Healing
by Robert Lyons, former BPF Board President
Summer 2000: Vowing Peace in an Age of War
by Alan Senauke, BPF Senior Advisor
Environmental Issues
June 2005: Listening to the "Canaries in the Mine" Sing for the Benefit of All Beings
by Diana Lion, BPF Associate Director (Programs) and Prison Program Director
August 2002: Buddhist Energy Reform
by Chris Wilson, BPF Board Member
Global Economic Justice
World Faiths Development Dialogue: Reflections One Year Later
by Alan Senauke, BPF Senior Advisor
Peace
Disarmament
January 2008: Sitting with a Killer
by Betsy Blakeslee, BPF Member
August 2005: Los Alamos Bearing Witness report
by Roshi Joan Halifax, BPF International Advisory Council
August 2005: Los Alamos
by June Tanoue, BPF Member
August 2005: Laying Down Arms
by Maia Duerr, BPF Executive Director
February 2005: Cultivating Peace, Dismantling War: Inner and Outer Disarmament
by Alan Senauke, BPF Senior Advisor
Winter 2001: The Parking Lot Sutra (from Turning Wheel)
by Donald Rothberg, former BPF Board member
Iraq
December 2005: Why BPF Continues to Call for the Withdrawal of U.S. Troops from Iraq
by Maia Duerr, BPF Executive Director
March 2005: Two Years Later: Why Iraq Still Matters
by Maia Duerr, BPF Executive Director
May 2004: Iraq, Abu Ghraib, and Karma
by Alan Senauke, BPF Senior Advisor
May 2003: "Isn't the War Over?" A Discussion Paper on Continuing the
San Francisco Vigil
by Chris Wilson, BPF Board member
Palestine/Israel
Oct 2006: Israel and Palestine: Ferrying Everyone Across to the Shore of Liberation
by Annette Herskovits, BPF member
April 2002: Through a Glass, Darkly: Towards a Buddhist Perspective
on Israel & Palestine
by Alan Senauke, BPF Senior Advisor
Peace in our Neighborhoods
Oct 2007: What Happened to Kikhiesha Brooks?
by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, BPF Executive Director
Responses to Sept 11, 2001
Buddhist Peace Fellowship: Statement
Buddhist Peace Fellowship: Statement (en Español)
Letter by Joanna Macy
Ways Towards Change
by Christopher Titmuss
Violence is Never a Solution
by Claude Anshin Thomas
A Time for Heroes
by Robert Joshin Althouse
Letter to President Bush
by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Cultivating Compassion to Respond to Violence: The Way of Peace
by Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh
Letter
by Roshi Joan Halifax
A New Holy War Against Evil? A Buddhist Response
by David Loy
Prison Dharma and the Prison-Industrial Complex
December 2005: For Stanley "Tookie" Williams and Ourselves
by Hozan Alan Senauke, BPF Senior Advisor
November 2005: "True Lives," a talk at the "Save the Peacemaker Rally" for Stanley Tookie Williams
by Joseph Bobrow Roshi, BPF member
January 2005: Talk at the Execution Vigil for Donald Beardslee at San Quentin
by Diana Lion, Associate Director (Programs) and Prison Program Director
October 2003: Dharma Reflections on the Death Penalty
(includes wallet-sized "Declaration of the Preciousness of Life")
by Diana Lion, Associate Director (Programs) and Prison Program Director
July 2003: Why Fighting the Death Penalty is Still Critical
by Diana Lion, Associate Director (Programs) and Prison Program Director
On Race, Class, Disability, Gender, Sexual Orientation
Please see our Diversity page for more articles
July 2006: Horizontal Peacemaking
by Diana Lion, Founder of BPF's Prison Program
June 2005: Listening to the "Canaries in the Mine" Sing for the Benefit of All Beings
by Diana Lion, Associate Director (Programs) and Prison Program Director
May 2004: Same-Sex Marriage: Freedom to Marry Is a Basic Civil Right
by Melanie Phoenix, former BPF Administrative Director
April 2001: Stories We Have Yet to Hear: The Path to Healing Racism in American Sanghas
by Mushim Ikeda-Nash, BPF International Advisory Council
On Race and Buddhism
by Alan Senauke, BPF Senior Advisor
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