“We have to liberate each other and ourselves. We can do this because we have a love a life.
It is calling us in all our converging streams through the teachers of the main religions.
I see structural violence as a way to address if we speak together that we are all victims and we are all accountable.
It is the work we are born to do.”
Joanna Macy
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Buddhist Heritage of Gandhara, Pakistan
Prof. Dr. M. Ashraf Khan Taxila Institute of Asian Civilizations Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan ashrafarchaelogist@hotmail.com Pakistan is an important region in South Asia since ancient time. It served as a pivotal point of Buddhism from centuries that’s...
The 27th SEM Lecture
Engaged Buddhism: JTS Korea, INEB Distribute US$50,000 in COVID-19 Crisis Relief
Providing meals at PDO, a Buddhist monastic school in Myanmar. Image courtesy of JTS Korea The Buddhist humanitarian relief organization Join Together Society Korea (JTS Korea), founded by the renowned Korean Seon (Zen) monk Venerable Pomnyun Sunim, working in...
Buddhist Monks, Volunteers Offer Relief Amid Floods, Pandemic Risk in Cambodia
By Craig Lewis | Buddhistdoor Global | 2020-10-23 | Venerable Vy Sovechea, president of Preah Sihanouk Raja Buddhist University,Battambang Branch. From sbubb.edu.kh As the worst flooding in about a decade inundates large areas of...
Would Council of Churches: Interfaith Message on Just Finance, Debt and Reparations 16 October 2020
INEB has provided the Buddhist perspective in World Council of Churches 16 October 2020 Interfaith Message on Just Finance, Debt and Reparations. "This joint message captures faith reflections on just finance and reparations, identifies common ground and calls for...
Ecology monks in Thailand seek to end environmental suffering
by Kiley Price on 13 August 2018 At a time when Pope Francis is calling upon religious leaders to step up as environmental advocates, Thai Buddhist monks are answering the call. Through rituals like tree ordinations, monks are integrating Buddhist principles into the...
SEEDS OF PEACE
Seeds of Peace Vol. 37 No.1 (January – April 2021)
2021 is beginning with new opportunities for expanding our work in the region.We have been collaborating USAID Wildlife Asia, WildAid Thailand, the Thai Department of National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP), FHI60 and the Sekhiyadhamma network and Wat...
Seeds of Peace Vol.36 No.3 Sep-Dec (2020)
In response to the high levels of suffering among the poorest and most marginalized communities in South and Southeast Asia, the International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB) has set up a COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund. As of this printing. INEB has awarded funds...
Seeds of Peace Vol.36 No.2 May-Aug (2020)
The International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB) is appealing all people around the world across religions and beliefs to recognize the interconnected and interdependent nature of our shared humanity during the global COVID19 crisis. This is an opportune moment...
Seeds of Peace Vol.36 No.1 Jan-Apr (2020)
We send our best wishes for a most auspicious 2020, in addition to celebrating Chinese New Year in February and Songkran in April! This issue of Seeds of Peace highlights sessions from INEB's recent conference held in Deer Park, Bir, India, during October 2019. Among...
Seeds of Peace Vol.35 No.3 Sep-Dec (2019)
We are looking forward to seeing many of you at INEB's biennial conference, October 22 - 24, hosted by the Deer Park Institute in Bir, India. It is in this beautiful location in the foothills of the Himalayas we will renew our commitments to the work of engaged...
Seeds of Peace Vol.35 No.2 May-Aug (2019)
Greetings from Bangkok where the country has been celebrating the coronation HM King Maha Variralongkorn Bodindradebayavarungkun. We wish him well with the hope that the entire country benefits during his reign. We appreciate our friend Jill Jameson's insightful and...