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Diversity & Buddhism

WEBSITES

Larry Yang

Rainbow Dharma

Zen Under the Skin

Spirit Rock Meditation Center: Diversity Program

Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: Diversity Programs

The Pluralism Project's Diversity News Feed for Buddhim

ARTICLES

Alice Walker's article, Overcoming Speechlessness, discusses how practice and community can help cope with suffering around the horrors of violence and racism. (Dec 2009)

Suffering Too Insignificant for the Majority to See, by Alice Walker, published in Shambhala Sun (May 2007)

The Pluralism Project's article on Racial Diversity and Buddhism in the U.S. (Aug 2006)

Forum: Barriers to the Dharma, featuring Paul Haller, Marlene Jones, Charles Prebish, and Guy McCloskey, published in Buddhadharma (2005)

Something has to change: Blacks in American Buddhism, by Lawrence Pintak, published in Shambhala Sun (Sept 2001)

East Bay Meditation Center's reading list on Diversity, Race and Ethnicity

Mindfulness Tools

Meditation Timers you can download or stream live. Widgets for Mac and PC. iPhone Meditation app.

Meditation Widget for the dashboard on Mac.

Self- Compassion website: exercises for students, scales for researchers, articles for the curious, and more...

Unfettered Questions: Ken McLeod's responses to students about meditation & dharma practice. Nice short audio files for those of us with short attention spans.

Anti-Racism Resources

HEALING, RECONCILIATION & SOCIAL JUSTICE

The National Resource Center for the Healing of Racism

"Our focus is creating a society that embraces the reality of the oneness of humankind, and the eradication of racism and its many forms that dehumanize or cause strife." NRCHR also has a wonderful library of resources on their site.

Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation

"The primary goal of the CSVR is to use its expertise in building reconciliation, democracy and a human rights culture and in preventing violence in South African and in other countries in Africa."

The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond

"PISAB is a national and international collective of anti-racist, multicultural community organizers and educators dedicated to building an effective movement for social transformation. "

Teaching Tolerance

A project of the Southern Poverty Law Center that "is dedicated to reducing prejudice, improving intergroup relations and supporting equitable school experiences for our nation's children."

The Applied Research Center (ARC)

"The Applied Research Center (ARC) is a racial justice think tank and home for media and activism."


WHITE ALLIANCES

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack. (1988) Peggy McIntosh.
Article that discusses the reality of privilege.

AWARE-LA

"AWARE-LA’s mission is to work toward the abolition of the white supremacist system and all systems of supremacy through building communities of Radical White people in solidarity with people of color in the larger movement for racial, social, economic, and environmental justice. "

Guidelines for Being Strong White Allies, by Paul Kivel

White Privilege, hosted by Christopher Bowers

"This social blog is dedicated to reclaiming our humanity through anti-racist analysis, reflection, and storytelling."


ART

Theatre of the Oppressed

"Above all, we believe that the Theatre of the Oppressed is of, about, by and for the Oppressed, as it is clear in our Declaration of Principles. If you agree with this, we certainly agree with you."

The Hapa Project

"Kip Fulbeck began The Hapa Project as a forum for Hapas to answer the question 'What are you?' in their own words and be pictured in simple head-on portraits."

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