Buddhists of African Descent on Creating a Just Society with Michael Belton

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Uplifting Black Nichiren Buddhist Voices

Black Buddhist Studies

9 episodes

2 days ago

How Black practitioners in the U.S. are embracing, shaping, and deepening Nichiren Buddhist traditions. Host Rima Vesely-Flad discusses the unique ways Black Buddhists bring African diasporic perspectives, lived experiences, and spiritual creativity into their practice. Including influential voices like Dr. Kamilah Majied, Bishop Myokei Caine-Barrett Shonin, and Dr. Ralph Craig, who discusses Tina Turner’s lifelong practice. Produced by Twice As Good Media, supported by the Crossroads Project via the Henry J. Luce Foundation, as well as the Frederick Lenz Foundation and the Fetzer Institute.

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Buddhists of African Descent on Creating a Just Society with Michael Belton

Uplifting Black Nichiren Buddhist Voices

26 minutes 54 seconds

2 days ago

Buddhists of African Descent on Creating a Just Society with Michael Belton

This final episode explores the connection between self-improvement and justice. Nichiren Daishonin, the founder of Nichiren Buddhism, believed that Buddhism only has meaning when it effects positive change in society. Rima Vesely-Flad speaks with Michael Belton, a founding co-architect of the association, Buddhists of African Descent, about how this teaching has helped him develop throughout his life.

Michael Belton is a Minneapolis-based practitioner who spent forty years in public service, most recently as the Deputy Director for Ramsey County, Minnesota’s Juvenile Corrections Division. He has instituted culturally responsive treatment and programming for communities of color, focusing on culturally rooted responses for vulnerable African American male youth.