Engaged Buddhism is the modern meeting place of personal and social liberation. As a Zen Buddhist priest, as director of Buddhist Peace Fellowship, founder of the Clear View Project, and advisor to the International Network of Engaged Buddhists, Hozan Alan Senauke has a unique experience of the full range of the engaged Buddhist movement around the world. The compelling essays in The Bodhisattva's Embrace throw light on places little seen. Alan Senauke challenges us to awaken in the world as it is.

The Bodhisattva's Embrace: Dispatches from Engaged Buddhism's Front Lines, Alan Senauke, Clear View Press, Paperback, 244 pp, $15.00

Hozan Alan Senauke is a Soto Zen Buddhist priest in the tradition of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. (Hozan, translated as Dharma Mountain, is his Buddhis name.) Alan serves as vice-abbot of Berkeley Zen Center, where he lives with his wife Laurie. They have two children, Silvie and Alexander.

Alan is founder of the Clear View Project, developing Buddhist-based resources for relief and social change. In the last several years, Clear View has supported India's ex-untouchable Buddhists, and Burma's monks, nuns, and activists in their yearning for democracy. He was executive director of Buddhist Peace Fellowship from 1991 through 2001, and remains active in BPF as Senior Advisor. Alan is also a member of the International Network of Engaged Buddhists' Advisory Council.

In another realm, Alan has been a close student and active performer of American traditional music for nearly fifty years.

Clear View Project's website is www.clearviewproject.org. Alan can be reached at <[email protected]>.

To My World	i
Introduction	iii
The Bodhisattva's Embrace	1
Mindfulness Must Be Engaged	17
Active Dharma: Sources of Socially Engaged Buddhism	21
What Is To Be Done	37
Notes Towards a Practical Zen Psychology	43
Grace Under Pressure: Burma's Saffron Revolution	57
Ambedkar's Children	73
Shipbreaking	97
Through a Glass Darkly: A Buddhist View of Israel & Palestine	115
Walking in the Direction of Beauty: Speaking with Sister Chan Khong	127
It's the Real Thing	137
World Faiths Development Dialogue, One Year Later	143
The World Is What You Make It: Global Warming	149
On Race & Buddhism	155
What Did You Learn in School? -- 40 Years After the Columbia Strike	165
The Stickiness of Privilege	177
Buddhas Behind Razor Wire	181
Words On the Eve of Stephen Anderson's Execution	191
Jukai at San Quentin	195
A Declaration of Interdependence	199
Things Fall Apart: Sojun Roshi at 80	205
APPENDICES
1. Bodaisatta Shishobo/The Bodhisattva's Four Embracing Dharmas	211
2. Selective Bibliography	219
3. Notes on sources, publications, etc.	223