Programming for The Second Buddha was coordinated by Associate Professor of Asian Studies Benjamin Bogin through the Skidmore Faculty Scholar Residency, which is co-sponsored by the Center for Leadership, Teaching, and Learning and the Office of the Dean of Special Programs and the Tang Teaching Museum. In this talk we will explore the tradition of Radical Dharma how this tradition supports us in developing radical honesty, compassion, and love to achieve liberation for all beings. Lama Rod can be reached at The event is free and open to the public. He is also a co-author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation and his next book project exploring transformative anger and rage is due out Fall 2019. He has been a regular guest on SiriusXM’s Urban View hosted by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Karen Hunter. This is not a book about bypassing anger to focus on happiness, or a road map. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, Lama Rod has also been a guest faculty member at the Harvard School of Education’s program Mindfulness for Educators. In Love and Rage, Lama Rod Owens, coauthor of Radical Dharma, shows how this unmetabolized anger-and the grief, hurt, and transhistorical trauma beneath it-needs to be explored, respected, and fully embodied to heal from heartbreak and walk the path of liberation. An author, activist, and formally authorized Buddhist teacher in the Tibetan tradition of Buddhism, he is the co-founder of Bhumisparsha, a Buddhist tantric practice community as well as a visiting teacher with several Buddhist centers including the Natural Dharma Fellowship and the Brooklyn Zen Center. Lama Rod Owens is considered one of the emerging leaders of his generation of Buddhist teachers. Lama Rod offers talks, retreats and workshops in many countries. Lama Rod offers talks, retreats and workshops in many countries. Radical presence is the practice of allowing our broken hearts to show us how to be free and to help others to get free. Lama Rod Owens How can we channel our anger in positive ways. In this talk, Lama Rod Owens reaches into his deep knowledge of Buddhist teachings and a lifetime of commitment to racial justice movements to help us think about compassion as a practice more intentional than simple gestures of benevolence or charity. In this glimpsing, we can learn to allow our broken hearts with its fear, trauma, and ignorance to inform our social change work. JRod Owens, MDiv ’17, author, activist, Buddhist Lama, and 2021 Gomes Honoree. Lama Rod Owens (he/him) is a Buddhist minister, bestselling author, activist, yoga instructor and authorised Lama, or Buddhist teacher, in the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism and is considered one of the leaders of his generation of Buddhist teachers. Perhaps the most radical act now is to be our most open and vulnerable selves allowing our broken hearts to be glimpsed. Join us at 6:00 PM Thursday, April 4, as Lama Rod Owens connects the Second Buddha’s teaching with contemporary concerns.
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