Transcending: Uplifting Trans Buddhist Voices
Dharma Studies Series: April 10 - July 17, 2023
We used the book Transcending: Trans Buddhist Voices**
editors Manders & Marston
All talks from the series can be found on the “Dharma Talk” page, accessible under the “Teachings” tab or HERE
Rev. Liên Shutt, 4/10: Online
Series begins
READ: Prefaces by La Sarmiento & Caitriona Reed, Introductions fr/ the editors Kevin Manders & Elizabeth Marston, and Lev White’s Blessing
She is the Founder & Guiding Teacher of Access to Zen. Their bio can be found HERE
Dawn Haney, 4/17: In-Person
READ: Finn Enke’s What Is a Body, Anyway? Form, Deep Listening, & Compassion on a Buddhist Trans Path, p.5
Dawn has been organizing, coaching, teaching, and writing for 20 years, on feminism, white anti-racism, Buddhism, leadership, and liberation. A dharma student since 2003, they is a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leaders program, a Community Teacher at East Bay Meditation Center and the Alphabet Sangha, and taught across the US as a former Co-Director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship.
Direct dana/giving: PayPal: dawnmarissa@gmail.com or Venmo: @dawnmarissa
Rev. Liên Shutt, 4/24: Online
READ: Thuy Vanh’s Barriers Faced by Trans People of Color in Buddhist Communities, p. 229
5/1: Requested before the series was determined…
And, nicely coinciding with AAPI Heritage Month!
Chenxing Han has a NEW BOOK out! In-Person
Chenxing Han is a Bay Area–based writer and the author of Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists (North Atlantic Books, 2021). She holds a BA from Stanford University, an MA in Buddhist studies from the Graduate Theological Union, and a certificate in Buddhist chaplaincy from the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley, California. She co-organized the May 4th, 2021 May We Gather: A National Buddhist Memorial for Asian American Ancestors.
Direct dana/giving: @Chenxing-Han-1 (last four digits 6089)
Rev. Liên Shutt, 5/8: Online
Sangha Participation Night
Please join us & be prepared to share:
What would support you in practice and work around Transphobia? — Both broadly/generally and from our sangha?
Fresh “Lev” White, 5/15 In-Person
READ: I Am Everything, I Am Nothing, I Am Spirit Manifested: My Three (& More) Truths, p. 81
Fresh “Lev” White, is a love and compassion activist. He offers mindfulness, mediation, and diversity trainings as tools for shifting towards more authentic, conscious, and passionate living. He teaches and writes about how unconditional love and self-compassion are the ultimate gateways to honoring and understanding others; thus, healing our communities and our planet.
Direct dana/giving: Venmo: @freshencounter or PayPal: paypal.me/FreshLevWhite
Rev. Liên Shutt, 5/22: Online
Lu Lam can’t make it after all AND we’ll go ahead & READ their Yellow Poppy and an Annicagender Heart, p. 103+ and Kevin Manders’ Becoming Whole Just to Let It Go, p. 161+
6/5: in-person option. Such rich interactions on 5/22 so we’ll stay with the same READINGS: Kevin Manders’ Becoming Whole Just to Let It Go, p. 161+ and then Lu Lam’s Yellow Poppy and an Annicagender Heart, p. 103+
With Rev. Liên Shutt unless otherwise noted.
JUNE:
6/12: Online. READ: Elizabeth Marston’s Working with Nothing: Being Trans & Buddhist in North America, p. 131+
6/19: No A2Z to celebrate Juneteenth
6/26: We’ll start with Lu Lam’s Yellow Poppy and an Annicagender Heart, p. 103+ Then, justin adkin”s “Right Now… It’s Like This,” p. 209+
