THINK SANGHA
"Buddhist"
Intellectual Practice Tools for Integrating
Spirituality &
Social Change Work
Think Sangha is a socially engaged Buddhist
think tank affiliated with the Buddhist Peace Fellowship (BPF)
in the United States and the International Network of Engaged
Buddhists (INEB). We use a Buddhist sangha model to explore pressing
social issues and concerns. The group's methodology is one based
in friendship and Buddhist practice as much as theory and thought.
The Think Sangha's core activities are networking with other
thinker-activists,
producing Buddhist critiques of social structures and alternative
social models, and providing materials and resource persons for
trainings, conferences, and research on social issues and grassroots
activism.
New
papers:
Japan: Funeral
Buddhism
as Engaged
Buddhism by Yoshiharu Tomatsu
The Search for Socially Engaged Buddhism
in Japan
by Jonathan Watts
Directory Guide of Buddhist NGOs in
Japan
Think Sangha
2005
Exploring the Method of Socially Engaged
Buddhism
Think Sangha Journal #4
Rethinking
Karma: The Dharma of Social Justice
Annual Program Reports01
2002-03: Buddhist Responses to
Modern Violence
2001: The
Socially Engaged Buddhist in the
Era of Globalization
1999-2000: The Lack
of Progress - Perspectives
on Modernity
1998-99: Expanding
Issues
1997-98: The
Religion of the Market
Contents
Background
and Vision
Papers and
Viewpoints
Think Sangha
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This page last updated April 6, 2006
CONTACT
For questions and comments concerning
Think Sangha, contact Jonathan Watts at watts@jsri.jp