Social and Engaged Buddhism: The CEBB Experience and Lama Padma Samten

Abstract

This work aims to make a historical recovery of the emergence of CEBB (Centro de Estudos Budistas Bodisatva) and his experiences as a vehicle for dissemination of Tibetan Buddhism in Brazil, as well as the very trajectory of Lama Padma Samten, its founder, and current religious leadership of this tradition. We intend to demonstrate that the CEBB experience set in a form of social and engaged Buddhism where prospects facing on education, social welfare and the preservation and respect for human rights are elements that approach the Brazilian reality. The lived experience of CEBB also binds to work at great social risk communities, but always connected with Brazilian identities of Buddhism that mirror the altruistic action, based on generosity and contemplation. Linked to CEBB it is also, in large part, the history and development of Buddhism in Brazil that link growth statistics and expansion as a result of social work engaged and universal responsibility with human beings.

Keywords

• Lama Padma Samten
• Engajamento
• Budismo Social
• Budismo no Brasil