{"id":760,"date":"2023-05-25T12:13:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T19:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/transpacific-studies\/?page_id=760"},"modified":"2023-10-23T09:01:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T16:01:45","slug":"americas-racial-karma","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/transpacific-studies\/americas-racial-karma\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Racial Karma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/transpacific-studies\/past-events\/\">&lt; Back to Events<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-761 size-full\" src=\"\/transpacific-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/188\/2023\/05\/AmericasRacialKarma.jpg\" alt=\"Americas Racial Karma Image\" width=\"577\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/transpacific-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/188\/2023\/05\/AmericasRacialKarma.jpg 577w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/transpacific-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/188\/2023\/05\/AmericasRacialKarma-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Is there a Buddhist approach to acknowledging and transforming America\u2019s enduring racial karma?<\/strong> Larry Ward &#8211; senior Dharma teacher ordained by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and founder of the Lotus Institute &#8211; will share insights from his recently released book America\u2019s Racial Karma: An Invitation to Heal on how to break the nation\u2019s cycles of racial trauma. In conversation with Ito Center Director Duncan Ryuken Williams.<\/p>\n<p><em>Co-sponsored by the Lotus Institute<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n    \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--stacking-cards \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--stacking-cards\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n    \n            <div class=\"cards-container\">\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                                                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          Bios\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Larry Ward (pronouns- he\/him) is a senior teacher in Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh&#8217;s Plum Village tradition and the author of the book America&#8217;s Racial Karma. Dr. Ward brings 25 years of international experience in organizational change and local community renewal to his work as director of the Lotus Institute and as an advisor to the Executive Mind Leadership Institute at the Drucker School of Management. He holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies with an emphasis on Buddhism and the neuroscience of meditation.<\/p>\n<p>Duncan Ryuken Williams is Professor of Religion\/American Studies &amp; Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and Director of the USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture. Williams is the author of the LA Times bestseller American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War (Harvard Press, 2019) about Buddhism and the WWII Japanese American internment; The Other Side of Zen: A Social History of S\u014dto Zen Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan (Princeton University Press, 2005) and editor of seven books including Issei Buddhism in the Americas, American Buddhism, Hapa Japan, and Buddhism and Ecology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                        \n                            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/transpacific-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/188\/2023\/05\/LarryWard-696x432.jpg\"\n                    sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 23vw, (min-width:768px) 39vw, 83vw\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Larry Ward Image\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n        <\/div>\n    \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-760","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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