Special Offering
At the Threshold: a four part series on Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy (Panel 4)
October 27, 2026
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Location
Online
October 27, 2026
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
For the fourth and final meeting of this series, Kaira Jewel Lingo (Dharma teacher and co-leader of the Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy program) and Adam Bucko (author and co-founder of the Reciprocity Foundation) will be in conversation with Rev. Chelsea MacMillan of Greenfaith NYC about how Buddhist Eco-chaplaincy and efforts to respond to climate crisis meet up and interact in the wider community with interfaith coalitions and actions. What do Buddhist spiritual care providers bring to the mix? And what do we learn from one another working across faith traditions in our shared urgency and love for the planet and the impacts of climate crisis on our communities?
This is the final part of a four-part online series created in collaboration with BECA (Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy Association). In this series we explore Buddhist eco-chaplaincy with panelists offering different perspectives on ecological grief, spiritual care, and real-world application. Across four sessions, participants will gain insight into its foundations, intersectional relevance, and interfaith possibilities while experiencing the compassionate outlook this emerging field offers.
Past events in the series:
Panel 1: What is Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy: Responding to Eco-Crisis from the Cushion to the Earth
Panel 2: The Dharma of Upheaval: What does Buddhist Eco Chaplaincy Look Like in the World?
Time: 7:00–8:30 PM ET / 4:00–5:30 PM PT
Location: Online via Zoom (link will be provided to registrants)
Fee: $10–$75 sliding scale, per event.
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Financial assistance deadline: Oct 20, 11:59pm ET
Registration deadline: Oct 27 at 12:00 PM ET /9:00 AM PT — Register below.
Questions? Contact us at info@brooklynzen.org.
Kaira Jewel Lingo is a Dharma teacher with a lifelong interest in spirituality and social justice. Her work continues the Engaged Buddhism developed by Thich Nhat Hanh, and she draws inspiration from her parents’ lives of service and her dad’s work with Martin Luther King, Jr. After living as an ordained nun for 15 years in Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastic community, Kaira Jewel now teaches internationally in the Zen lineage and the Vipassana tradition, as well as in secular mindfulness, at the intersection of racial, climate and social justice with a focus on Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, and activists, as well as artists, educators, families, and youth. Based in New York, she offers spiritual mentoring to groups and is author of We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons in Moving through Change, Loss and Disruption and co-author of Healing Our Way Home: Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy and Liberation. Her upcoming events and teachings can be found at www.kairajewel.com.
Chelsea MacMillan is an interspiritual minister, the Senior Organizer at GreenFaith, and founder of Brooklyn Center for Sacred Activism. Between 2019-2021, she led direct actions and facilitated regenerative culture with Extinction Rebellion. You can find her writing in Order of the Sacred Earth by Matthew Fox, and at revchelseamac.substack.com.
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