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Lama Rod Owens, MDiv, is an American author and teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. He is a social change activist and speaks and teaches on issues of race, gender, sexuality and identity from the perspective of Buddhism and human experience. He is a cofounder of Bhumisparsha, an online tantric Buddhist spiritual community.

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My Body, My Life

How mindfulness has helped Buddhist teacher Lama Rod Owens live as a Black queer man in America.

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How to Practice Shamatha Meditation

Shamatha meditation—mindfulness or concentration—is the foundation of Buddhist practice. Lama Rod Owens teaches us a version from the Vajrayana tradition.

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From Radical Dharma to All About Love, a Look at Queer Black Buddhist Perspectives on Spiritual Practice in Contemporary Texts

Several queer Black Buddhist authors have showed me how spiritual practice can be a liberating force in the face of challenges as huge as racism, sexism and queerphobia.

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Dharma for All

Bhumisparsha, a virtual sangha started by Lama Rod Owens and Justin von Bujdoss, aims to create a new kind of Buddhist community.

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Do You Know Your True Face?

Lama Rod Owens says we all need to look honestly at who we are, in all our complexity—and that includes those who teach the dharma.

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How We Can Address Patriarchy

Lama Rod Owens on why Buddhist community members—especially male-identified teachers, monks, staff, authorities, and lay practitioners—must confront and deal with ethical misconduct, and how to do it.

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The Work of Diversity: Getting Messy, Getting Uncomfortable

You can invite people of color into a sangha, but it doesn’t mean that they’re going to be comfortable or happy.

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A Conversation on Love and Rage: Lama Rod Owens and Kate Johnson

In this conversation featured in Lama Rod Owens’ new book Love and Rage, he and Buddhist teacher Kate Johnson discuss how the dharma can help us hold our anger and work with our rage.

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How We Can Reconnect with Each Other and the Planet During Crisis

We’re living through a moment of global struggle with the COVID-19 pandemic and continued racial unrest in the United States. Yet, with struggles also come rich insights that are allowing us to rethink our common humanity and how we care for the planet.

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Power and Heart: Black and Buddhist in America

At the first-ever gathering of Buddhist teachers of black African descent, held at New York’s Union Theological Seminary, two panels of leading Buddhist teachers took questions about what it means to be a black Buddhist in America today.

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