Buddhist Engagements

Contemporary Challenges

This section of the Insight Online is dedicated to exploring the diversity of perspective found among some of the many different teachers associated with the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. Gavin Harrison is a teacher of meditation; Paula Green is a peace activist; Christopher Queen is a scholar teaching at Harvard University. These distinct voices contribute to a larger choir which is increasingly being labled as Engaged Buddhism.

These voices originate in the issues and concerns of lay Buddhist practitioners, who are the overwhelming majority of participants in American Buddhism. All three teachers have evocative things to say about the role of Buddhism in our world today, and about their own practice as an active engagement with social issues. We present these perspectives in the hope that it will initiate a meaningful examination of these and related issues among the readers.

Flying in the Face of Death by Gavin Harrison	Dharma on the Front Lines by Paula Green
A Fourth Turning of the Wheel by Christopher Queen