Offering transformative tools and wisdom from the Buddhist tradition.
Interfaith Lens • Accessible Language • Restorative Justice • Emotional Literacy • Fostering Interconnection
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Workbooks + Courses
Buddhist-based course work written specifically for the incarcerated using accessible language and an interfaith lens, free of charge.
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Certificate + Connection
Inmates who complete our soft-bound paper coursebooks receive a certificate of completion, and a personal, in-depth reply from a BPM volunteer--seasoned Buddhist practitioners from various traditions.
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Tablet learning
Using the Edovo Platform, BPM offers its Courses and Workbooks in a tablet format, as well as a wide range of carefully chosen resources representing a variety of schools/ traditions.
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Tara's Sisters
A unique inter-spiritual Sangha of Belonging for People who Identify as Female. Members show commitment, intentionality and discipline in one's path of transformation.
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Podcast
Discussions, interviews and so much more with Rev. Susan Shannon, BCC., Blaire Embrey and special guests.
The Aim of our Offerings:
Cultivation of Deeper Self-Awareness + Increased Impulse Control
Provide Tools of Non-Violence + Connection
Integration of One’s Past + Creating an Authentic Future Life
Reduction of Recidivism + Increase of Pro-social activity
Balancing Life both Inside and Outside the Walls
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2,700
Since 2021: Course books mailed free of charge to the incarcerated, prison chaplains and volunteers.
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37,050
Since Oct; 2023: Courses accessed by incarcerated men and women who have enrolled on the Edovo platform.
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1,400
Since 2022: Personalized Homework Responses to inmates from BPM volunteers.
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25+
Volunteers and counting...
It was a great pleasure for me to read the Buddhist Prison Ministry's An Introduction to Buddhism and to know it is being shared with incarcerated people throughout the country. I'm impressed by the clarity and content of this excellent overview.
And I am thankful to know that this high quality teaching is reaching my brothers and sisters on the inside.
Joanna Macy
“May bodhicitta, precious and sublime—arise where it has not yet to be; And where it has already arisen, may it never falter— but grow and flourish, even more.”
Traditional Buddhist Prayer
Bodhicitta : the mind (citta) that is aimed at awakening (bodhi), for the benefit of all beings.