New Horizons in Engaged Buddhism

In this tenth episode in the New Horizons in Engaged Buddhism series, host Julia Sagebien interviews Joshin Byrnes. Joshin is a Zen priest and teacher at Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community in Middlebury, Vermont, a hub of community-engaged practice with direct service programs that include an active daily drop-in center called Gather and transitional supported housing at The Grove. He holds street...

In this ninth live interview in the New Horizons in Engaged Buddhism series, host Julia Sagbien interviews Kaira Jewel Lingo. Kaira Jewel is a senior Dharma teacher in the Plum Village Zen lineage and teaches Vipassana in the Insight tradition. She is a member of the Plum Village North American Dharma Teachers’ Council of Elders. She has been practicing mindfulness since 1997 and teaching since 20...

In this eigth episoide of New Horizons for Engaged Buddhism, Host Julia Sagebien interviews Tara Brach. Tara is a spiritual teacher, psychologist and author of the internationally bestselling books Radical Acceptance , Radical Compassion and Trusting the Gold . She blends Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices, mindful attention to our inner life, and a dedication to creating a more ju...

Host Julia Sagbien interviews Mushim Patricia Ikeda.   Mushim is a Buddhist teacher, poet, author, social justice activist, and mother based in Oakland, California. She teaches at the East Bay Meditation Center, where she leads the award-winning yearlong mindfulness program for social change agents, Practice in Transformative Action. Mushim is the recipient of the Gil A. Lopez Award for a peacemak...

Host Julia Sagebien interviews Ellen Korman Mains — daughter of Holocaust survivors and student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche — focusing on how we can move on from trauma patterns to finding our own best way of healing and repairing the world. 

In this fifth episode in the New Horizons in Engaged Buddhism series, Host Julia Sagebien interviews Village Zendo Abbot Sinclair Shunryu Thomson about his understanding of engaged Buddhism

In this episode, host Julia Sagebien interviews Asian-American feminist Buddhist scholar Dr. Sharon A. Suh. Dr. Suh is professor of Buddhism at Seattle University. She received her BA from Trinity College in Asian Studies, M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School, and Ph. D. from Harvard University. She specializes in Buddhism, race, and gender and the intersections of trauma and mindfulness. Sharon is...

In the second of a series of live interviews with engaged Buddhist thought leaders, host Julia Sagebien interviews Daiken Nelson Roshi about the foundations of and his vision for engaged Buddhism. Daiken is the guiding teacher of the Pamsula Zen Center in NYC, Pamsula Zen of Westchester, and the Iowa City Zen Center. Before receiving Dharma transmisison, Daiken practiced for over three decades wit...

In this third of a series of live interviews with engaged Buddhist thought leaders, host Julia Sagebien interviews Francisco “Paco” Genkoji Lugoviña Roshi  about his vision for engaged Buddhism.  Roshi Paco is a Dharma heir to Bernie Glassman Roshi and a board member of the Zen Peacemakers organization. He co-founded the Hudson River Peacemaker Center: House of One People, in Yonkers, New York. He...

In Today's episode, host Julia Sagebien interviews Zen Buddhist priest Seth Zuihō Segall.  Seth is a cofounder of the Buddhist Coalition for Democracy, and contributing editor to Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.  He is also a clinical psychologist, and the author of many books, chapters, and articles including The House We Live In: Virtue, Wisdom, and Pluralism (2023) and Buddhism and Human Flo...