| Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Vision and Mission
Our Vision
The Buddhist Peace fellowship envisions a future in which people from all
backgrounds come into a heartfelt realization of our interconnection to each other
and to the Earth. We belief that actions generated from this understanding will
creat societies guided by generosity, compassion, wisdom, and justice.
Our Mission
The mission of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship (BPF), founded in 1978, is to
serve as a catalyst for socially engaged Buddhism. Our purpose is to help beings
liberate themselves from the suffering that manifests in individuals, relationships,
institutions, and social systems. BPF’s programs, publications, and practice groups
link Buddhist teaching os wisdom and compassion with progressive social change.
We strive to:
- Offer a public witness, throug our practice, for peace and protection
of all beings
-Raise humanitarian, environmental, and social justice concerns
among Buddhist communities
- Bring a Buddhist perspective to contemorary peace, environmental,
and social justice movements
Our practice of contemplation and social action is guided by our intentions to:
-recognize the interdependence of all beings
-Meet suffering directly and wiht compassion
-Appreciate the importance of not clinging to views and outcomes
-Work with Buddhists from all traditions
-Connect individual and social transformatin
-Practice nonviolence
-Use participatory decision-making techniques
-Protect and extend human rights
-Support gender and racial equality and challenge all forms of
unjust discrimination
-Work for economic justice and the end of poverty
-Work for a sustainable environment
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