Meeting Today’s World with the Bodhisattva’s Eyes and Hands
Join renowned Buddhist teacher Roshi Joan Halifax for an insightful virtual event exploring how we can meet today’s challenges with the wisdom and compassion of a bodhisattva—one who is dedicated to awakening and serving all beings.
April 24 / 2:00 pm-3:30 pm
Engaged Buddhism Speaker Series:
Meeting Today’s World with the Bodhisattva’s Eyes and Hands
with Roshi Joan Halifax, PhD
Thursday, April 24, 2025
2:00pm – 3:30pm
U.S. Pacific Time
Held on Zoom
Join renowned Buddhist teacher Roshi Joan Halifax for an insightful virtual event exploring how we can meet today’s challenges with the wisdom and compassion of a bodhisattva—one who is dedicated to awakening and serving all beings. Drawing from Buddhist teachings and engaged practice, Roshi Joan will guide participants in cultivating the clarity of a bodhisattva’s eyes and the skillful action of their hands, offering practical ways to respond to the world’s suffering with courage and love.
This event is open to all, whether you are new to Buddhist practice or a longtime practitioner seeking deeper engagement.
This workshop is a part of our Monthly Engaged Buddhism Series featuring Lay Dharma Teachers in the Plum Village Tradition. This series is for mindfulness practitioners around the world who want to learn more about engaged practice and how to build service-based mindfulness communities. We hope you will join us.
If you are unable to join us live, we invite you to register anyway to receive the replay.
Roshi Joan Halifax, Ph.D. is a Buddhist teacher, Founder and Head Teacher of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a social activist, author, and in her early years was an anthropologist at Columbia University (1964-68) and University of Miami School of Medicine (1970-72). She is a pioneer in the field of end-of-life care. She has lectured on the subject of death and dying at many academic institutions and medical centers around the world. She received a National Science Foundation Fellowship in Visual Anthropology, was an Honorary Research Fellow in Medical Ethnobotany at Harvard University, was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Library of Congress, received the Pioneer Medal for Outstanding Leadership in Health Care by HealthCare Chaplaincy, the Sandy MacKinnon Award from Covenant Health in Canada, Pioneer Medal for Outstanding Leadership in Health Care, received an Honorary DSc from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She has received many other awards and honors from institutions around the world for her work as a social and environmental activist and in the end-of-life care field.
For more about Roshi Joan’s life and work, please visit her website: www.joanhalifax.org.
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