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Damchö Diana Finnegan

Damchö is spiritual director and a founder of Comunidad Dharmadatta, one of the largest Buddhist practice communities serving Latin America. Dharmadatta Community understands the path to liberation to be a primarily collective rather than individual path. In her teachings, Damchö transmits an earth-based vision of the Dharma in which care for our more-than-human kin is integral to spiritual practice. She has a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in gender and ethics in Sanskrit and Tibetan Buddhist narratives, and is translator and co-editor of Interconnected: Embracing Life in our Global Society.

The EcoSattva Training

Fostering Courage, Forging Community and Loving this World

The EcoSattva Training is a journey designed to support you in reckoning with and responding to ecological crises. It unfolds over a series of eight sessions, each of which provides teachings from a diverse group of leaders along with practices, contemplations, and follow up resources. Join us in this journey to cultivate steadiness, wisdom, and connection. Together we can nourish the seeds of unshakable agency.
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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

Buddhism that is Ecologically Responsible

Animism and Buddhism in Dialogue

What if the forest was never just scenery but full of others who sense you the moment you enter? Without words, can we hear what’s being said? What might it mean to let that possibility guide your next encounter with the countless beings that surround us?
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EcoDharma

Can Buddhism Challenge Ongoing Colonialism?

Ecological Activism for the Global South

From the Bodhisattva vow to the deliberate design of injustice, this conversation asks what Buddhism has to offer a world undergoing dramatic change and lands on a simple truth: we may not get there in our lifetime, but we are called to build the path.
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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

The World Comes Alive and Shimmers

The Art (and Politics) of Communing with Subjects

What happens to a spiritual practice when we fully acknowledge the personhood of nonhuman beings?
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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

What Lack Drives Us to Do

A Conversation with David Loy

What do you reach for to fill that insecurity? What do our cultures, institutions, and nations reach for to soothe the worries, satisfy the craving, and solidify our permanence?
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EcoDharma

Practicing with Rising Uncertainty

Living Conscious in the Web of Relationships

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What may come from opening to this place of groundlessness? What if the goal was not to soothe back into working shape, but to transform into that which cannot be broken?
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EcoDharma

Into the Shadows

Buddhism, Ecology and Social Justice

Need a refresher on the untapped and transformative potential of the dharma for our times? Kristin Barker delivers the foundational understanding of One Earth Sangha in this interview with Damchö Diana Finnegan.
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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

Indigeneity, the Sacred Feminine and Buddhism

A Conversation with Dekila Chungyalpa

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What might be EcoDharma’s unique and essential contribution to the environmental movement? Dekila Chungyalpa braids her Buddhist, Indigenous, and scientific traditions in this timely interview with the Dharmadatta community.
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Practicing with Rising Uncertainty

Amid new levels of collective instability, how might we change our relationship to distress, anxiety and all of their relatives? Damchö Diana Finnegan and Kristin Barker led this gathering on July 28 to ground our responses in a steady posture and open heart.
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Belonging to the Earth

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The founder of Comunidad Dharmadatta guides us in an exploration of our bodies as the endlessly renewing fabric of Earth and Earthly life.
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