Upayadhi began her journey in the BuddhaDharma in 2004 at the London Buddhist Center in Bethnal Green. Over the years she has trained in a range of Buddhist contexts and traditions, but I remain rooted in the Triratna Buddhist Community, otherwise known as the Triratna Bauddha Mahāsaṅgha (TBM) in India. She is currently a doctoral student in Buddhist Studies at the University of Chicago, where she focuses on the Indian Buddhist Revival and the relationship between religious narrative and political imagination. Much of her research has focused on Dr. Ambedkar’s radical Buddhist imagination, which she places in conversation with Womanist and Black liberation theologians. Integrating her work as a scholar, interfaith chaplain and meditation instructor, she co-founded Awareness is Revolutionary in 2020, an international Buddhist collective committed to cultivating Beloved Community and accelerating racial literacy within a Dharmic framework. When the pandemic hit New York City, Upayadhi also co-founded Space2Meditate, a non-denominational mindfulness community offering on-line meditation seven days a week and still going strong. Born in Paris, Upayadhi moves between France, the US, the UK and increasingly India, in her efforts to learn Hindi.
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