Welcome to BGP blog!

Buddhism for Global Peace at Columbia University (BGP) is a student organization based on Nichiren Daishonin’s Buddhism. We meet every week to chant, study and encourage one another, ultimately striving for global peace through individual happiness.

We challenge ourselves to become a global citizen who possesses:

I. The wisdom to perceive the interconnectedness of all life and living.

II. The courage not to fear or deny difference; but to respect and strive to understand people of different cultures, and to grow from encounters with them.

III. The compassion to maintain an imaginative empathy that reaches beyond one's immediate surroundings and extends to those suffering in distant places.

Through our efforts to accomplish these aims, we wish to raise hope and help bring about peace in the Columbia University community and the world at large.

Buddhism for Global Peace at Columbia University is going to announce various campus events through this blog. So please visit us again! If you would like to learn more about Buddhism or about our future events, please send email to: buddhism.columbia@gmail.com.