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7th Annual Buddhist Community Gathering
Resistance and Regeneration
Amidst the Chaos

Saturday, November 15, 2025 

1pm - 3pm PST​

Join us as we host three distinguished dharma teachers as they reflect on this year's theme and engage in dialogue with one another.

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Click here to register for the gathering over Zoom!

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To view past Buddhist Community Gatherings, click here.

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Chenxing Han

Chenxing Han is a leading author, speaker, and educator at the intersection of Buddhism and Asian America. Trained in Buddhist studies and chaplaincy, she is the author of Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists and one long listening: a memoir of grief, friendship, and spiritual care. As a founder of Roots and Refuge, May We Gather,  Listening to the Buddhists in Our Backyard, Chenxing strives to cultivate spaces for creative inquiry, spiritual kinship, and intergenerational learning.

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Learn more about Chenxing from her website.

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Brother Pháp Lưu

Brother Pháp Lưu is a senior monastic dharma teacher at Deer Park Monastery. He helped start the Wake-Up movement, which brings mindfulness into schools, and is actively working with researchers to study the effects of Plum Village mindfulness practices on children. Brother Pháp Lưu has served as a monastic editor of several of Thích Nhất Hạnh's books, and has recently co-authored Hiking Zen. He offers Dharma talks in English, French, and Spanish.

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View classes offered by Brother Pháp Lưu on the Plum Village website

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Reverend Patti Nakai

Reverend Patti is a Jodo Shinshu emerita minister in the Higashi Honganji tradition, retired in 2023 from the Buddhist Temple of Chicago. She has been a pioneer woman in the North American Buddhist ministry and a social justice leader. 

Articles and videos by Reverend Patti can be found on the HigashiHonganjiUSA.org site. 

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