A review by drchanequa
Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom by

5.0

This book belongs beside angel Kyodo Williams’ “Being Black” in terms of its significance to understanding how Buddhists of African descent are integrating and expanding the tradition in ways that are culturally relevant. The authors in this anthology talk about their own paths to Buddhism, their struggles in the predominantly White sanghas in the US, and how Buddhism offers a path to liberation and social transformation. I’m using this book in one of the graduate theology classes that I teach, and I know it’s a text that I will return to again and again for my own edification.