Buddhism

This interview is one in an ongoing series exploring the intersection of art and religion in HDS courses. How can we imagine a better world from within our current context? When Charles Hallisey , MDiv ’78, and Molly Silverstein, MDiv ’22, began...

“There’s a lot of Mormonism in my Zen and a lot of Zen in my Mormonism,” Thomas McConkie, MDiv ’25, says. This elegant synthesis, however, took years of meditation and spiritual exploration to articulate. During his freshman year in college at the...

An excerpt from When Things Don’t Go Your Way: Zen Wisdom for Difficult Times by Haemin Sunim, MTS '99, published by Penguin Life, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC.

This webinar is the second in a series offered by the Buddhist Ministry Initiative at Harvard Divinity School. It featured a panel discussion of contributors to part II of Refuge in the Storm: Buddhist Voices in Crisis Care, edited by Nathan Jishin Michon...

This webinar is the first in a series offered by the Buddhist Ministry Initiative at Harvard Divinity School. It featured a panel discussion of contributors to part I of Refuge in the Storm: Buddhist Voices in Crisis Care, edited by Nathan Jishin Michon...

Buddhist chaplaincy programs—introductory, nondegree, and degree conferring—are no longer uncommon. One can study Buddhist chaplaincy at the Institute of Buddhist Studies, Union Theological Seminary, Naropa University, Maitripa College, New York Zen...

It was during the MDiv program at Harvard and time spent completing field education at Tufts that Priya Rakkhit Sraman, MDiv '17, became interested in working as a college chaplain. “I think that’s when I found meaning and purpose in everything I was...

During an event hosted by the Buddhist Ministry Initiative at Harvard Divinity School, Khentrul Rinpoche, a Non-Sectarian Master of Tibetan Buddhism, spoke about how to harness the potential of mind to transform unwanted conditions into positive...

The Catholic Theological Society of America announced that the current president of the CTSA and HDS Professor Francis X. Clooney, SJ, will have a Festschrift published in his honor in late 2023. Co-editors Axel Takacs, ThD '19, and Joseph Kimmel, MDiv...

Tulku Tenzin Gyurmey Rinpoche (Tengyur Rinpoche for short) noticed a problem in his hometown of Tawang, India. There was an overall lack of access to education, especially “culturally-appropriate” schools that fostered a connection with local culture...