Rev. Danny Fisher

Go over to the Tricycle Editors’ Blog and check out Joan Duncan Oliver’s interview with Christopher Queen on the the Symposium for Socially Engaged Buddhism!

From August 9th to 14th, 2010, the Zen Peacemakers will be hosting “The First Symposium for Western Socially Engaged Buddhism”, in Montague, MA. It will be a gathering of leading Western activist practitioners, sponsors, and academics in this ever-important and growing field.

Christopher Queen is an organizer of the Symposium, a lecturer on the study of religion at Harvard, and the author of four books; Action Dharma: New Studies in Engaged Buddhism (with Charles Prebish and Damien Keown),Engaged Buddhism in the West, American Buddhism: Methods and Findings in Recent Scholarship (with Duncan Ryuken Williams), and Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia (with Sallie B. King).