Bhumisparsha Retreat October 2022 in Atlanta, GA

Bhumisparsha is a virtual spiritual practice community and peer led sangha, originally founded (around 2017) by Lama Rod Owens and Lama Justin von Bujdoss. Our community, now as we approach 2025, has fully transitioned to a true collective (no legal entity or bank account) and continues to be committed to the presentation of Vajrayana, or tantric Buddhism, in a way that has relevance, depth and meaning in an ever-changing, multicultural world. We are also committed to bridging spiritual practice and social change. Check our calendar of events below.

 

THE NEW SAINTS:

From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors

Pre-order the latest book from Lama Rod Owens today!

“Our era calls for saints who are from this time and place, who speak the language of this moment, and who integrate both social and spiritual liberation. I believe we all can and must become New Saints.”

Discover insights and techniques to ignite your inner fierceness and compassion; create a sustainable spiritual practice that serves others and the planet; and embody the virtues of a New Saint.

Here is a clarion call for becoming a spiritual warrior—a human refreshed, serving a vision of a world shaped by love.

“The New Saints is breathtakingly honest. From grief and loneliness to radical acceptance, Lama Rod Owens beautifully weaves in the complexities of being human and truly getting free. It is a gift to be on this Earth in the same space and time as Lama Rod Owens.”
— Nova Reid, author of The Good Ally
“The New Saints will challenge your current understanding and offer fresh inspiration about ways, together, we can bring healing to our beautiful and broken world. This is a bold and powerful offering—one that attunes to our times with great lucidity, wisdom, and heart.
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— Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance and Radical Compassion

ABOUT THE NEW SAINTS

A Buddhist Lama and intersectional thought leader shares a guide for those who would dream a more just, ethical world into being. Saints, spiritual warriors, Bodhisattvas, tzaddik—no matter how they are named in a given tradition, they all share a profound wish to free others from suffering. Saints are not unattainable beings of stained glass or carved stone. “Saints are ordinary and human, doing things any person can learn to do,” teaches Lama Rod Owens. “Our era calls for saints who are from this time and place, who speak the language of this moment, and who integrate both social and spiritual liberation. I believe we all can and must become New Saints.”

With The New Saints, Lama Rod shares a guidebook for becoming an effective agent of justice, peace, and change. Combining personal stories, traditional teachings, and instructions for contemplative and somatic practices, he shares inspiring resources for self-exploration and wise action. Each chapter reinforces the truth of our interdependency—allowing us to be of service to the collective wellbeing, access the unseen realms of divine guidance and strength, and call on the support of the countless beings who share our struggles and hopes.

The status quo of our society is crumbling, and rightly so. But what future will emerge to replace it? “There’s nothing like crisis to wake us up and force us to get serious about change,” says Lama Rod. “Ancient, powerful magic is returning. With the end of the lies of the old world comes the awakening of truth.” For those who have the willingness to allow our hearts to break open, disrupt systems of violence, and let deep, authentic care guide our actions instead of fear and hate, here is a clarion call for becoming a spiritual warrior—a human refreshed, serving a vision of a world shaped by love.

Other works by Lama Rod include Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger and Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation with rev. angel Kyodo williams and Jasmine Syedullah, PhD

Bhumisparsha Virtual Events

Please join us for gatherings and offerings hosted virtually by the Bhumisparsha community (all times EDT).

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