This presentation from Kazi Adi Shakti introduces Process Buddhism as an ongoing project of creative synthesis, integrating Process philosophy, Buddhist dialectics, Marxian analysis and ecofeminist critique. Kazi begins by acknowledging Peter Paul Kakol’s original articulation of Process Buddhism as an abstract meta-theory of worldviews, noting its strengths and weaknesses. Then she moves towards a more grounded re-articulation of Process Buddhism on the basis of ecofeminist concerns, imbuing Process Buddhism with a more concrete purpose, namely, to uproot the dualisms in thinking and being that have ultimately led to the contemporary planetary polycrisis and to cultivate reciprocal, liberative ways of living that can rectify and replace it.

About the Presenter(s)

Kazi Adi Shakti is an artist and independent scholar studying and theorizing on the intersections of Process Philosophy, Madhyamaka Buddhism, Marxism and Ecofeminism, with a special focus on the unique role each might play in a holistic soteriology that includes them all. She is currently engaged in a research project with the UC Irvine Process Studies and South Asia fellowship studying forms of synthesis in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and Western Process philosophy. She blogs regularly on her site, holo-poiesis.com.