A letter from BGR's founder and chair, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, reflecting on our collective efforts to uplift individuals, families, and communities facing poverty, food insecurity, and social marginalization.
On Saturday, October 25, 2025, BGR founder and chair Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi hosted the 2025 Buddhist Action to Feed the Hungry Online Gathering, “Transforming Compassion Into Action”. A celebration of our shared commitment and community, the event featured Dharma talks and guided meditations from Buddhist monastics and lay teachers as well as introductions to BGR’s work to relieve the suffering of chronic hunger and poverty worldwide.
Namuun, a young woman in Ulaanbataar, pursues university studies with the support of BGR partner Maitreya Charity and the Asral Center.
A quarter of the way into the 21st century, we would never have expected an economically developed nation to deliberately set out to starve an entire population in a territory under its control. Such a policy would seem to belong to a past era, a time before the international community adopted binding codes of human rights. Yet in Gaza today, this assumption is being turned upside down.
Founded by the Australian Buddhist nun Ayya Yeshe, Bodhicitta Foundation provides food, housing, education, vocational training, and social services for people in need in Nagpur, India.
Hosted by BGR founder and chair Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, BGR’s annual Buddhist Action to Feed the Hungry Online Gathering, “Transforming Compassion Into Action,” will be held on October 25, 2025.
As climate change and corporate agriculture devastate smallholder farms in Malawi, a young mother receives training in sustainable, climate-resilient agriculture methods from BGR partner Ecology Action.
“The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025,” the U.N.’s annual report on global progress toward achieving the goal of ending hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition, focuses this year on the consequences of rising food prices around the world.
In rural Bangladesh, two boys from impoverished families thrive at the Bangladesh Buddhist Missionary Society's Orphans' Home Complex.
On August 16, 2025, BGR Sangha Council members Ayya Ānandabodhī and Dhammadīpā Roshi offered a half-day of practice on the topic of Mindfulness of Feeling and Mindfulness of Mind. In this second session of BGR's Satipaṭṭhāna in Practice series, our teachers led us in study, reflection, and meditation on the second and third establishments of mindfulness—feeling tones (vedanā) and mind (citta).
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