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Lama Rod Owens



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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Ep. 41 Love and Rage With Lama Rod Owens

How can we find the path of liberation through our anger? Lama Rod Owens speaks with Ethan about ways we can work with anger as a healing energy in our practice.

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The Road Home with Ethan Nichtern
2020
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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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Lama Rod Owens
2018
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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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Lama Rod Owens
2017
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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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Lama Rod Owens
2016
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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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Lama Rod Owens and Kate Johnson
2020
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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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Lama Rod Owens—“Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger” | Talks at Google

A provocative conversation at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality & identity rooted in Buddhist wisdom and human experience, he shares his personal journey with rage. At a young age, he internalized the belief that his anger was dangerous.

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Lama Rod Owens
2020
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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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Ruth King, Gina Sharpe, Myokei Caine-Barrett, angel Kyodo Williams, Kamilah Majied, Pamela Ayo Yetunde, Konda Mason, Gretchen Rohr, Venerable Pannavati, Lama Rod Owens, Ralph Steele, Jozen Tamori Gibson, Chimyo Atkinson
2019
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