On May 6, 2025, BGR founder and chair Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi gave the keynote address at the UN International Day of Vesak celebration, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. We share the prepared text of his address here.
A letter from BGR Deputy Director Patti Price.
This spring, the BGR community joined together in Dharma learning and practice focusing on the first establishment of mindfulness—the body.
In the Huaracondo District of Peru, supported by BGR, a young man not only learned agricultural skills but also became a young leader in his community.
As Buddhist Global Relief enters its 17th year of service, we celebrate the generosity of our supporters whose conscientious compassion continues to relieve the suffering of chronic hunger and poverty for thousands of people around the world.
A project with BGR partner the Ruben Centre is providing needed supplemental nutrition to more than 3,000 vulnerable children, including babies and disabled children, in the Mukuru community on the outskirts of Nairobi.
This spring, BGR founder and chair Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi traveled to Vietnam to give the keynote address at the UN International Day of Vesak celebration, held in Ho Chi Minh City, on May 6. In this essay, Bhante shares a personal account of his travels in Vietnam leading up to the UN event.
Led by Thai Forest monastics and BGR Sangha Council members Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho, this beautiful event offers practitioners both theory and practical guidance in how to use the body as a framework for cultivating clarity of mind and concentration.
Through workshops with BGR partner Building Bridges India, a woman in southern Punjab learns entrepreneurship skills and gains independence.
The Trump administration’s eradication of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will have “deadly consequences for millions of people living in dire humanitarian emergencies and extreme poverty,” according to BGR partner Oxfam America.
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