Articles

Prince’s Untold Truths: Navigating the Painful Divide Between the Icon and the Accusations (DISCPlus, 2025)

Collection of Ayo’s articles on Lion’s Roar

• Why Buddhists Should Celebrate Juneteenth

• We Remember: Six Remarkable Black Buddhists

• How to Work with Pain

• True Liberation: Black & Buddhist in America

• The Buddha in America

• Buddhist Sangha as Refuge for LGBTQ+ People

• Dharma Relief 2: Innovative Financial Support for Black Dharma Teachers and Leaders

• The Five Remembrances

• The Traveling Nunk: Sister Clear Grace and Pamela Ayo Yetunde in Conversation

• Yes, She Was a Powerful Woman! A Dedication to bell hooks

• Beginning a Buddhist Pedagogy for the Privileged Oppressed

• Right Remembering: An Antidote to Scapegoating’s Erasure

• Buddhism in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter - Top 100 article!

Selected Academic Articles

The Emergence of the Black Buddhist Radical Tradition by Pamela Ayo Yetunde and Rima Vesely-Flad (Chapter: Moved by the Spirit: Religion and the Movement for Black Lives, 2023)

Herding Cows Sheep by Pamela Ayo Yetunde and John Chang-Yee Lee (Routledge Handbook of Buddhist-Christian Studies, 2022)

I Know I’ve Been Changed: Black Womanist Buddhist and Christian Spiritual Formation and Spiritual Care for a Homicidal White Male Buddhist by Pamela Ayo Yetunde (Chapter : Navigating Religious Difference in Spiritual Care and Counseling, 2019)

Audre Lorde’s Hopelessness and Hopefulness: Cultivating a Womanist Nondualism for Psycho-Spiritual Wholeness by Pamela Ayo Yetunde (Feminist Theology, 2019)

Buddhist Non-self as Relational Interdependence: An NTU-Inspired African American Lesbian Interpretation? by Pamela Ayo Yetunde (Buddhist-Christian Studies , 2018)

Black Lesbians to the Rescue! A Brief Correction with Implications for Womanist Christian Theology and Womanist Buddhology by Pamela Ayo Yetunde (Religions, 2017)