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UU Buddhist Fellowship

Welcome to our UUBF Website, where we provide spiritual and practical resources to all who are interested in Unitarian Universalist Buddhism.

You might be a Buddhist exploring Unitarian Universalism or a UU interested in learning more about Buddhist practice within our faith tradition.  For those who have a clear commitment to Buddhist practice within Unitarian Universalism,  you can find connections to practice groups in UU congregations, to the biennial Convocation sponsored by UUBF, sermons about UU Buddhism, and links to our newsletter, Facebook group,  and other resources. Explore, Enjoy, and Contact us if we can help with you with questions about UUBF or UU Buddhist practice.

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UU Sangha Spring 2022

Menucha, OR 2017
Our fellowship. Group photo taken at the Convocation, 2018
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Since the introduction of the first Buddhist texts to America in the mid-nineteenth century, Buddhism has been an extremely influential force among Unitarians and, over the last thirty years, Unitarian Universalists. Early Unitarians, such as Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Ralph Waldo Emerson responded with great enthusiasm to Buddhism’s emphasis on individual experience, rather than appeal to scriptures or belief in miraculous events, as the basis for authority in spiritual matters.In recent years, Unitarian Universalists have increasingly been drawn to explore Buddhist religious practices, especially seated meditation, in order to ground the “free and responsible search for truth and meaning” that is one of the guiding principles of the UU tradition. Meditation invites a direct and immediate experience of reality and provides a balance to purely intellectual inquiry.

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byWayne ArnasonApril 27, 2022
by Rev Wayne Arnason The last of the Three Refuges chanted by Buddhists of various lineages says: “I Take Refuge in the Sangha” which is the community of fellow practitioners in both your present life and throughout space and time.  It can be harder to “take refuge” if you would prefer to find a sangha with Unitarian Universalist connections with whom to share your…
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Convocation 2023 With David Loy

byWayne ArnasonApril 20, 2022
Convocation 2023 UU Buddhist Fellowship Convocation is a biennial opportunity for UU Buddhists to sit together, compare notes on our sangha experiences, study and play together. We have been holding convocations since 2005. We have a resident teacher offering dharma talks and opportunitis for informal teaching all weekend: Ecodharma: Buddhist Perspectives on the Ecological…

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