Tina Turner’s Nichiren Buddhist Practice with Dr. Ralph Craig

https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Podcasts211/v4/cd/c1/99/cdc19998-43af-b54b-04ed-10cb4a02020f/mza_9801575084555132445.jpg/600x600bb.jpg

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.

Buddhism

Religion & Spirituality

RSS

All content for Uplifting Black Nichiren Buddhist Voices is the property of Black Buddhist Studies and is served directly from their servers with no modification, redirects, or rehosting. The podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Podjoint in any way.

Buddhism

Religion & Spirituality

https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_episode/44383877/44383877-1758647658821-1facf7f93bf8f.jpg

Tina Turner’s Nichiren Buddhist Practice with Dr. Ralph Craig

Uplifting Black Nichiren Buddhist Voices

45 minutes 27 seconds

1 month ago

Tina Turner’s Nichiren Buddhist Practice with Dr. Ralph Craig

The distinctive teachings of Nichiren Buddhism are deeply compelling for Black practitioners throughout the United States. To start this exploration of the significance of this practice for Black Americans, Rima Vesely-Flad speaks with Dr. Ralph Craig about the famous Black Buddhist singer Tina Turner, and her relationship to Nichiren practices such as chanting the Lotus Sutra.

Dr. Ralph Craig is the author of Dancing In My Dreams: A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner. He is an interdisciplinary scholar of religion, whose research focuses on South Asian Buddhism and American Buddhism.