Safran was the editor of the influential book Psychoanalysis and Buddhism: An Unfolding Dialogue. Dr. Jeremy Safran, the clinician, psychotherapist, and researcher who wrote extensively on the integration of mindfulness and psychotherapy, was killed in his Brooklyn home Monday, New York Daily News reports. He was 66. Safran was a professor of psychology at the New [...]
Vandalized Buddhist shrine reopens in Salt Lake City
In January, vandals threw a 25-pound rock through the face of the terracotta Buddha head in Salt Lake City's Sugarhouse neighborhood. Approximately 100 people attended a rededication ceremony Sunday for a Buddhist shrine in Salt Lake City that was rebuilt after a vandalism. In January 2018, only a month after the shrine — known as the "Buddha on 9th" — was built, [...]
Ajahn Brahm resigns as spiritual director of the Buddhist Society of Western Australia
Ajahn Brahm has resigned from his position as the spiritual director of the Buddhist Society of Western Australia (BSWA), the organization announced in a news release. The announcement was written by Drew Bellamy, Immediate Past President of BSWA. It reads, in part: The 2015-2018 Committee has for some time been examining and trying to implement more support (paid or [...]
Trevor Hall Is Making Music Out of “The Fruitful Darkness”
More than 20 years after its publication, Roshi Joan Halifax's book The Fruitful Darkness is still bearing fruit. It's a great inspiration behind Trevor Hall's latest album of its namesake, which is currently in the midst of a four-part release. Lilly Greenblatt spoke with Hall about his new album, the spiritual path behind it, and his own journey through darkness. In the [...]
Buddhists supporting March for Our Lives share their photos and messages
On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people gathered at the March for Our Lives in Washington, a student-led rally calling for tighter gun control laws in the US following a massacre at a high school in Parkland, Florida that left 17 people dead last month. Demonstrations were held in more than 800 cities in the United States, Canada, and around the world. Many Buddhist [...]
Karmapa shares personal struggles, calls for reconciliation in his community
"I have actually myself been quite downcast and depressed... I have had to give up a lot. None of it has been easy," the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje said in a recent address, in which he also spoke of health issues and his hope to reconcile divides in the Karma Kagyu lineage. Last week, the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje delivered a "special message" to the audience [...]
How Tune-Yards created an indie-rock meditation on race and Buddhism
Lilly Greenblatt talks to Tune-Yards' Merrill Garbus about how race and Buddhism informed the band's latest release. Close your eyes Get in touch With the physical sensations coursing through your body (Honesty) Breathe (Honesty, honesty) Those are the instructions from frontwoman Merrill Garbus on “Honesty,” the fifth track of Tune-Yards’ latest album. The song also [...]
Eido T. Shimano Roshi, founding abbot of the Zen Studies Society, dies at 85
Eido T. Shimano Roshi, the founding abbot of the Zen Studies Society who resigned in 2010 after allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct, died on February 18 in Japan at the age of 85. The Zen Studies Society consists of the New York Zendo Shobo-Ji in Manhattan and Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-Ji monastery in the Catskill mountains of New York. Shimano was born in Tokyo, Japan [...]
Naropa University launches new academic center, the Chögyam Trungpa Institute
Naropa University is launching the Chögyam Trungpa Institute to highlight the work of its founder, marking the thirtieth anniversary of his death. Naropa University, the Buddhist-inspired, nonsectarian university in Boulder, Colorado, has announced the establishment of the Chögyam Trungpa Institute, a new academic and research center. The Chögyam Trungpa Institute will [...]
Upaya Zen Center welcomes Matthew Kozan Palevsky as new president
Upaya Zen Center announced Wednesday that Matthew Kozan Palevsky has been selected to serve as the center's new president. “Kozan represents the next generation of Buddhist leadership and, as president, will provide a fresh perspective on how Upaya can best serve the world today,” said Roshi Joan Halifax, Upaya’s founder and Abbot in the announcement. Kozan previously [...]
