• “When light is produced, we no longer worry about getting rid of darkness, nor do we wonder where the darkness has gone. We just know that there is light.””

    Ajan Chah (from A Still Forest Pool)

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Mission & Purpose

The Buddhist Peace Fellowship tends the sacred edge where spiritual practice meets movement organizing, cultivating inner peace as the ground for transformation and the liberation of all beings. Rooted in the traditions of Engaged Buddhism, we bring together spiritually and politically committed communities to strengthen resilience, deepen wisdom, and build collective organizing power.

Our programs are led by, and accountable to, Black, Indigenous, and Asian heritage Buddhists—centering the leadership, wisdom of BIPOC trans, Two-Spirit, and gender-expansive organizers, healers, and movement leaders. Through our work, BPF nurtures a justice-centered, spiritually grounded ecosystem that sustains people and movements for the journey toward liberation.

Drawing on the traditions of engaged Buddhism, BPF strengthens the inherent connections between movement organizing and spiritual practice in three critical ways: 

  1. We offer spiritual support for people engaged in social, environmental, economic and healing justice movements; 

  2. We provide political education and leadership development for people who want to take their Buddhist practices “off the cushion;”

  3. We foster a spiritually grounded community to build clarity, endurance, and kinship for compassionate action in the current political moment.

Our programs are guided by the leadership, voices, and priorities of trans and gender expansive Black, Indigenous, and Asian heritage Buddhists, and communities who share our values of racial justice, queer feminist values, and regenerative living economies.

Vision

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.