Dharma talk with Greg Snyder, Oct 29

October 29, 2016

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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Online
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Please join us Saturday, October 29th for our usual Saturday morning schedule, which will include a dharma talk by Greg Snyder. The talk will be at 11am and will follow a period of zazen starting at 10:20. Meditation instruction will be at 9am.

Greg will share from his experience traveling to India for a gathering of the International Network of Engaged Buddhists. They are gathering at the Nagaloka school in Nagpur, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s conversion, and the birth of India Buddhist movement, widespread among Dalit communities.

During the conference engaged Buddhists from traditional and western backgrounds can reflect on Babasaheb Ambedkar’s vision and aspects of Buddhism from their own social experience: Dharma as empowerment; breaking down barriers between people; the implications of Dharma for governance and civil society.

The anniversary celebration of Dr. Ambedkar’s conversion will be celebrated at Nagpur’s Diksha Bhumi, the conversion ground where he stood to become a Buddhist in October of 1956. This memorial will bring together more than a million Buddhists from Maharastra, other provinces of India and internationally.

Please see this blog link for more information:

When a Million Buddhist Dalits Come to Town

 

gregsnyder4-1Greg Snyder is a senior dharma teacher at Brooklyn Zen Center, as well as its co-founder and current President. He is also the Senior Director of Buddhist Studies at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Greg recently received Dharma Transmission from Teah Strozer, making him a lineage holder in the Suzuki Roshi lineage of Soto Zen.  He has been practicing Zen since 1998 and received his early training at Austin Zen Center under the guidance of Seirin Barbara Kohn. Greg is active with multiple interfaith and community networks organizing around peace-building, anti-violence and social justice initiatives, and currently sits on the Brooklyn Borough President’s Advisory Council on Faith-based and Community Partnerships. His interests include ensuring the dharma is truly available to everyone, supporting young people in practice, developing a community-responsive Zen center, and advocating for bringing the illumination of conditioning around patriarchy, racism and economic exploitation to the center of our Buddhist exploration of self. He is devoted to co-creating an American dharma movement that fully embraces a deep social engagement focused on transforming inequity, bias and violence in ourselves, our communities and the world.

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