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Burning Refuge 2024

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Burning Refuge 2024 Recordings

Hear our keynote speakers from Burning Refuge 2024

The 2025 Burning Refuge Summit, at Harvard Divinity School and the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies

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APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN: We are thrilled to announce that the application for our inaugural Burning Refuge retreat is open! At this co-led community retreat, which will be held at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies from February 14th to 17th, we hop

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: We whole heartedly invite you to share your research, workshop your practice, and build liberatory kinship at the Burning Refuge 2025 Conference. This year’s theme of diaspora Buddhism is an invitation and we welcome a bro

BURNING REFUGE 2025 ANNOUNCEMENT: The Burning Refuge Summit will convene its conference on Buddhism and social-spiritual liberation for a second year at Harvard Divinity School from March 14th- 16th. This year, our conference will focus on the theme

At long last, we are proud to publish the Plenary Session recordings from our inaugural 2024 conference! Please visit youtube.com/@BurningRefuge, which is our new permanent YouTube channel.

Unfortunately, we are not able to publish videos of any br

BURNING REFUGE 2025: OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT COMING SOON!

Burning Refuge 2024 Follow-Up Message, also coming soon!

Thank you to our 2024 attendees for an unbelievably successful inaugural conference. We apologize for the delay in communicating our

Duncan Ryuken Williams was born in Japan to a British father and a Japanese mother and was ordained in 1992 as a Soto Zen Buddhist priest at Kotakuji Temple in Matsumoto, Japan. He is currently Professor of Religion, American Studies & Ethnicity,

Cuong Lu, Buddhist teacher, scholar, and writer, was born in Vietnam in 1968. He majored in East Asian studies at the University of Leiden, and in 1993 was ordained as the 19th monastic disciple of Thich Nhat Hanh. In 2000, he was recognized as a tea

Speaker highlight: Santosh Ishwardas Raut

Santosh Ishwardas Raut is an Assistant Professor, in the Department of Aesthetics and Philosophy at The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. For the past 11 years Raut has also served

Our next speaker highlight: Dr. Mihiri Tillakaratne!

Mihiri Tillakaratne (she/her) is an Associate Editor at Lion’s Roar, where she focuses on Asian American Buddhist issues and is launching the new digital publication Bodhi Leaves: The Asian

Introducing Ven. Magga Sunim!

Ven. Magga Sunim is a well-renowned monk in the Korean Jogye Order and a public figure in advocating for youth mental health. In 1985, he received the Buddhist monk’s precepts from Ven. Hyunsung Sunim at Dosunsa,

Retreat

February 14-16, 2025

Barre Center for Buddhist Studies

149 Lockwood Rd, Barre, MA 01005

Conference

March 14-16, 2025

IN-PERSON at Harvard Divinity School

Non-interactive livestream also available

45 Francis Ave, Cambridge MA 02138

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