BGR NEWS + TEACHINGS
The Impacts of Rising Food Prices on Hunger
“The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025,” the U.N.’s annual report on global progress toward achieving the goal of ending hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition, focuses this year on the consequences of rising food prices around the world.
BGR Community: A Caring Home for Children in Need in Bangladesh
In rural Bangladesh, two boys from impoverished families thrive at the Bangladesh Buddhist Missionary Society's Orphans' Home Complex.
Foundations of Freedom and Satipațțhāna in Practice, Event 2: Mindfulness of Feeling and Mind
On August 16, 2025, BGR Sangha Council members Ayya Ānandabodhī and Dhammadīpā Roshi offered a half-day of practice on the topic of Mindfulness of Feeling and Mindfulness of Mind. In this second session of BGR's Satipaṭṭhāna in Practice series, our teachers led us in study, reflection, and meditation on the second and third establishments of mindfulness—feeling tones (vedanā) and mind (citta).
BGR Community: Growing a Small Business in Kenya
In a community on the periphery of Nairobi, Kenya, a young mother learned container-gardening skills from BGR partner the Ruben Centre.
Global Compassion Coalition Announces Inaugural ‘Festival of Compassion’
The Global Compassion Coalition (GCC) announces its inaugural Festival of Compassion, to be held in September 2025 in Cape Town, South Africa.
BGR Community: ‘I Can Now Dream Greater’
After his family fled their home following the 2021 coup, a young scholar in Myanmar received both school supplies and hope from BGR partner New Eden Foundation.
