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The Burning Refuge Collective just finished up our final pre-Conference administrative meeting of the year, after meeting all yearlong to prepare for this upcoming weekend! We cannot wait to welcome you all this Friday for the 2nd annual Burning Refu

LAST WEEK TO REGISTER

The second ever Burning Refuge Conference is happening THIS Friday, March 14th through Sunday, March 16th! We are so thrilled to be hosting our amazing keynote speakers, including Lama Rod Owens, as well as the incredible atten

POST RETREAT REFLECTION

Our hearts are so incredibly full after this amazing weekend with you all at the Barre Center. We are so grateful to all our participants for sharing their own practices with us, and showing up with such radical compassion an

OUR FINAL CONFERENCE LINEUP

The second ever Burning Refuge conference is a little over a month away! The team here is so thrilled to share that these fantastic teachers and scholars will be our keynoters for the conference. Our conference schedule h

INTRODUCING OUR FINAL KEYNOTE SPEAKER: MAITRIVEER NAGARJUNA!!!!

Maitriveer Nagarjuna (also known as Dr. Santosh Raut) hails from Maharashtra, the heartland of the Ambedkarite Buddhist movement. Both a Dhamma teacher and a scholar of Buddhist Aesthet

UPCOMING DEADLINE: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

With our submissions deadline coming up soon, we want to remind everyone that we are still seeking proposals and workshops for our upcoming conference in March! We whole heartedly invite you to share your rese

INTRODUCING OUR FOURTH KEYNOTE SPEAKER: LAMA ROD OWENS!

Lama Rod Owens is a Black Buddhist Southern Queen. An international influencer with a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School. Author of The New Saints: From

REMINDER: CONFERENCE ATTENDEE REGISTRATION

We are so excited to be offering our second ever Burning Refuge conference at Harvard Divinity School from March 14 - 16. This conference is free for all attendees, but we will close registration once we re