Published On:Friday 12 September 2014
Posted by Celebrate Life Style information Blog
Prisons and Buddhists: Healing Individual and Structural Injustice
Lewis Lancaster and his longtime friend Danny Tam are the dynamic duo of Buddhist prison visitation. In an interview with this website in 2013, the emeritus professor of East Asian languages at UC Berkeley spoke eloquently about how his ministry with the International Bodhisattva Sangha Prison Program (of which Mr. Tam is chief financial officer) had transformed the lives of inmates across California’s state prisons. Prof. Lancaster and Mr. Tam have introduced inmates to Buddhism and taught them meditation, and are now offering an accredited course on Buddhism at Calpatria State Prison (in collaboration with Buddhist college University of the West). They are not only assisting in the emotional and moral rehabilitation of inmates, but are also offering them a sense of purpose and achievement in studying Buddhism. See at more: http://newlotus.buddhistdoor.com/en/news/d/41737
