BGR NEWS + TEACHINGS
BGR Emergency Grants Support Families Displaced by the Ukraine Conflict
Like many of you, we at Buddhist Global Relief are closely following the invasion of Ukraine. We offer a list of several excellent organizations that are on the ground assisting Ukrainians during this crisis.
Ukraine War Threatens Development Aid to World’s Poorer Nations
The need to provide emergency aid to Ukrainian refugees pouring into neighboring European countries threatens to shift vital poverty relief away from other nations in urgent need. Further, since Ukraine is one of the world’s major breadbaskets, the bombing of the country will also cause drastic cuts in the amount of wheat available to other countries, pushing up prices.
Introducing the Helping Hands Podcast
BGR Founder and Chair Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi introduces the Helping Hands Podcast.
We Must Hear Them
By Ayya Dhammadīpā • Where can we stand, but right here in this place, feeling the burning of the world? What else can we do but find the cool, still place within and the warm, gentle gaze for all people who live in fear, oppressed, enraged?
Expanding Educational Opportunities for Girls in Bangladesh
The Expanding Education for Marma Girls project, with BGR partner the Jamyang Foundation, provides the gift of education for girls from the remote village of Dhosri and surrounding villages in Bangladesh.
Food, Not Feed: Transforming the Global Food System
At the UN Conference on Climate Change in Glasgow, COP26, the raising of livestock was identified as a driver of carbon emissions, turning carbon-sequestering forests and peatlands into grazing land for livestock, and turning arable land that grows food to be directly consumed by people into feed for beef and dairy cattle, pigs, and chickens.
Kim Behan Receives the Outstanding Woman in Buddhism Award
Ayya Anandabodhi Bhikkhuni, of Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery, shares a beautiful tribute to BGR Executive Director Kim Behan.
In Memoriam: Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh (1926–2022)
By Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi • At midnight on January 22, the great Buddhist teacher Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh passed away at his home monastery in Hue, Vietnam, at the age of 95.
The Expansive Vision of Martin Luther King
By Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi • Martin Luther King Jr. saw his commitment to racial justice and his opposition to the war in Vietnam as integrally connected aspects of a single moral and spiritual demand: “to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy.” He joined the dots to see the triple evil of racism, poverty, and militarism as three manifestations of a pernicious scheme of values that prizes wealth above people.
Can A Doughnut Help to Heal Our World?
The dominant economic model followed by virtually all major economies is inflicting grave injuries on the planet’s fragile ecosystem and causing glaring economic and social inequalities. Can a diagram of a doughnut offer us a key to resolving our predicament?
