Our Purpose

Buddhist Peace Fellowship is a BIPOC, queer and trans-led Dharma organization that offers opportunities for practice, education and spiritual friendship, in service of personal and relational awakening and collective compassionate action.  

We work to amplify the kind of spiritual power that can interrupt violence, internally and externally, and seed the conditions for a world beyond domination, with fierce love at the center.  

Our intention is to resource and weave an interconnected, multi-racial, intergenerational web individuals and communities who are nourished by Engaged Buddhism, aligning in practice, supporting each other, and mobilizing for systemic change. 

Values

The Buddhist Peace Fellowship is a constellation of spiritual-political practitioners who, with guidance from the earth, ancestors and the Buddhadharma, seek to build a world where:

• We take care of each other, addressing needs holistically and working generatively with conflict.

• We honor the inherent and dynamic Buddha-nature in all beings, without hierarchy of worth.

• We deeply know and exercise agency, consent, and responsibility in ourselves, our bodies, and our relationships.

• The Dharma is practiced with reverence, grounded in lineage, and can be accessed by all.

• Social movements to heal systemic harm are rooted in fierce compassion. Movements have the depth to embody paradox, while transforming power structures and moving us toward continual awakening.

• Everyone, including and especially those living at the intersections of historic oppressions, is physically, emotionally, and spiritually free to live liberated lives.