{"id":247,"date":"2011-03-09T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/03\/unitarian-universalist-buddhist-convocation-2011\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:03:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:03:04","slug":"unitarian-universalist-buddhist-convocation-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/03\/unitarian-universalist-buddhist-convocation-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"Unitarian Universalist Buddhist Convocation, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-uhcxB3Hpc2o\/TXfy2z4sAaI\/AAAAAAAADrI\/aQbMoWyyPlI\/s1600\/uuBuddhist.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-uhcxB3Hpc2o\/TXfy2z4sAaI\/AAAAAAAADrI\/aQbMoWyyPlI\/s1600\/uuBuddhist.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-weight: bold;text-align: center\"><big><\/big><big><\/big><big>April 8-10, 2011<\/big>\n<\/div>\n<p><big><\/big><big>The UU Buddhist Fellowship will have its fourth convocation, returning this year to the Garrison Institute. \u00a0Our Convocation teachers will be James Ford and David Rynick, Leaders of the Boundless Way Zen Community. \u00a0They represent the first Zen community in North America to bring teachers of different Zen lineages together to create a distinctively Western and American vision of Zen. Boundless Way teachers have been influenced by their experiences as leaders and participants in Unitarian Universalism.<\/big><\/p>\n<p>There will also be workshops: Art Practice, with artist &amp; UU Buddhist Mike Gold, and  Prison Ministry, with Rev. 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