| Description | The Whole U, UW School of Social Work, and the Dharma Friendship Foundation welcomes Dr. Jan Willis on May 23 to Kane Hall, Rm 220, to present on Dharma and Activism. Jan Willis is one of the earliest American scholar-practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism, having studied Buddhism with Tibetan teachers for more than forty years, including as one of the first western students of Lama Thubten Yeshe. She discovered dharma as a path to healing the trauma of racism growing up in the segregated south, and has forged paths for the integration of Buddhism and social and political justice. She is the author of the memoir Dreaming Me: Black, Baptist, and Buddhist (2001) and scholarly and popular works on Buddhist meditation, hagiography, women and Buddhism, and Buddhism and race. She has been on short lists and profiled by Time, Ebony, and Newsweek. See Also: A Genuine Guru: Jan Willis Remembers Lama Yeshe (Mandala Magazine). |
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