BASE Project Makes a Comeback!

BASE is Back!
BASE (Buddhist Alliances for Social Engagement) is a Buddhist Peace Fellowship program that started in 1995 in the San Francisco Bay Area. BASE provides a community-based structure that integrates social action and social service with Buddhist practice. Participants spend six months or longer in a Buddhist-based support community while engaging in part or full time service or social action, either in volunteer work or in paid employment. The training component includes study, dialogue, and reflection around issues of socially engaged Buddhism, as well as Buddhist practice and retreat.

Each BASE group is a working model of the principle that social service and social change work is facilitated by an on-going community of like-minded people. BASE’s intention is to bridge the gap between formal practice and community social action.
BASE is grounded in the five principles of 1) service/social action, 2) wisdom/training, 3) (dharma) practice, 4) community, and 5) commitment.  New BASE groups are asked to reflect these principles: 1) Service/Social Action (seva): The day-to-day experience of engaging with suffering is the heart of BASE.

Keep watch on the website as we continue to re-establish this much loved program.



The Buddhist Peace Fellowship is:

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.