Project Interfaith Presents:

“Blue Jean Buddha: Tracing the Generations of Buddhism in America”

High School Program

A High School Conversation with Buddhist author and chaplain Sumi Loundon Kim

Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Witherspoon Hall at Joslyn Art Museum
(2200 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE)

This program is open only to high school classes that register in advance.

Join Sumi Loundon Kim, chaplain for the Buddhist Community at Duke University, for a conversation on Buddhism in America. In her talk, “Blue Jean Buddha: Tracing the Generations of Buddhism in America,” Sumi explores the interplay between Buddhism and American culture through the narrative of four generations in her family. She will explore how young Buddhists in America today have drawn from and diverge from the Baby-Boom Buddhist generation, as well as what the trends in American Buddhism indicate about its future.

Sumi Loundon Kim is the author of Blue Jean Buddha: Voices of Young Buddhists and The Buddha’s Apprentice: More Voices of Young Buddhists. In addition to serving as the chaplain for the Buddhist Community at Duke University, she is the ordained lay minister for Buddhist Families of Durham.

Space is limited and pre-registration is required.
For more information or to register your school group, please email Kat at kat@projectinterfaith.org

Sumi Loundon Kim is the chaplain for the Buddhist Community at Duke University and ordained lay minister for Buddhist Families of Durham. After receiving a master’s degree in Buddhist studies and Sanskrit from the Harvard Divinity School, she was the associate director for the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies in Barre, Massachusetts. She is working on a third book on practicing Buddhism to be published in Korea next May. Sumi and her husband, a native of Korea, monk, and professor, have two children, ages 2 and 4, and live in Durham, NC.

This program is part of Project Interfaith’s Community Conversations annual speaker series.

Co-sponsored by:

Project Interfaith, Nebraska Humanities Council, Nebraska Cultural Endowment, Central High School Foundation