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Field of Blessings: Ritual and Consciousness in the Work of Buddhist Healers

Ji Hyang Padma believes that we are hungry for a direct experience of the sacred in this culture. We try to fill the void with technology, and its “quick fix” of images and information. This leaves us hungry for true connectivity. We don’t need more information. We need more appreciation. Gratitude opens the heart, and gives our life meaning; it becomes a form of spiritual experience that gives us strength.

Field of Blessings explores how meaning-making can be approached by deep examination of the stories of our lives, which bridge the gap between the inner world and the outer world, giving shape to our experience. How can these narratives be spoken, written, or embodied? Ritual is the story brought-to-life, and a powerful vehicle for spiritual transformation, for reconnecting people with an embodied wholeness. Ji Hyang Padma shows that Chod, Medicine Buddha practices, and other Tibetan rituals are used by healers to evoke sacred energies, radical empathy, and to contact deep archetypal realms of the psyche.

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The Buddhist Campus Chaplaincy Sourcebook

Ji Hyang Padma & Jonathan Makransky, editors

with contributions from

Harrison Blum, Julian Bowers-Brown, Eli Ryn Brown, Lama Döndrup Drölma, Zoketsu Norman Fischer, Victor Gabriel, Rev. Jitsujo T. Gauthier, Roshi Joan Halifax, Rev. Victor Kazanjian, Jr., Jonathan Makransky, Rev. Ivan (Kusa) Mayerhofer, Nathan Jishin Michon, Ernest C.H. Ng, Rebecca D. Nie, Ji Hyang Padma, Henry C.H. Shiu, Ven. Priya Rakkhit Sraman, Jessica Thomas, Mark Unno, & Matthew Weiner

ISBN 978-1-998248-07-0 / Paperback, 8x10 inches / 236 pages / includes bibliographic resources / Available March 20, 2025

The Buddhist Chaplaincy Sourcebook presents research, analysis, case studies, and additional resources for the professional practice of Buddhist spiritual care focussed on students and colleagues in post-secondary educational institutions.

The college and university years have traditionally been a time of transformation for young people: meaning-making; finding one’s community; building life, work and relationship skills; and metamorphosis from a child to an adult.

Today, the post-secondary journey has been further complicated by climate anxiety, geopolitical uncertainty, the changing role of the academy in society, financial and legal pressures on educational institutions, and more.

Responding, a growing number of Buddhist teachers have embraced spiritual care beyond their traditional Sangha roles, to bring the wisdom and compassion of the Dharma to civil society as chaplains in education, healthcare, prisons, and the military.

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