AWARDS
Pamela Ayo Yetunde named as one of the “Outstanding Women in Buddhism” by the International Women’s Meditation Center Foundation.
ENDORSEMENTS
Casting Indra’s Net
Casting Indra’s Net is not just a book. It is a deeply compassionate tour of our interbeing - and a clear and vibrant call to live into it.
- RESMAA MENAKEM
Author of My Grandmother’s Hands
“Best Spiritual Books of 2023”
— Spirituality & Practice Magazine
We live in tumultuous and often ugly times. If you want to help make things better, and make yourself happier in the process, check out Ayo’s book. It’s easy to feel separate, like you’re an isolated ego peering fretfully out at the world. But this is an illusion - one that leads to hatred and unhappiness. This book might help wake you up from this nightmare. It’s a rallying cry for civility - to start repairing the world and ourselves.
— DAN HARRIS
Author of 10% Happier
Casting Indra’s Net is an enthralling plea for kinship and care. Offering life experiences and her refined theologian mind, Yetunde supports us in a thorough investigation of nonviolence in service of self-actualization and social harmony. Pithy and wise, Casting Indra’s Net warms the chill of our troubling times, softening us into wholeness.
- RUTH KING
Author of Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out
Founder of the Mindful Institute
Black and Buddhist
“Black lives that are Buddhist matter, and the new anthology edited by Pamela Ayo Yetunde and Cheryl A. Giles sees to it that the world knows about it. Being black and Buddhist has been a movement of awakening for decades. In this book, teachers share their experiences and teachings, unapologetically, of leaning into blackness while walking the ancient path of Buddha, a mystic who questioned the inequity of despair in his country. As you read, it becomes clear that these heart-filled essays serve as a new mandala of truth, love, and resistance. May the Dharma wheel continue to turn”
“Black and Buddhist represents a seismic shift in sharing Dharma relevant to the breadth of human experience. Be cherished, be guided, be elevated, and be transformed by the profound wisdom and compassion of all these authors.”
“Black and Buddhist is a wise, welcome, long overdue, beautiful, and genuinely revolutionary book, a turning of the Wheel of Dharma that points us all toward what we desire most in our daily lives: freedom and joy.””