We embrace diversity and invite anyone to join our meetings. For more information, please contact: deankaufer (at) mac (dot) com, or call (773) 465-4279. You can also visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bpf_chicago/

Current meeting time and place: Third Thursday of every month, 7:15 pm meditation (optional), 7:45-9:00 pm meeting. Ancient Dragon Zen Gate Temple, 1922 W. Irving Park Rd. (near Damen and the Irving Park Brownline station), Chicago.

BPF Chicago chapter recent activities:
- Pro-monk and pro-people of Burma and Tibet activities
- Sponsored a talk by new BPF National director Sarah Weintraub
- Ongoing opposition to military recruitment at area high schools
- Sponsored speaker Hozan Alan Senauke in 2009
- Conducted Burma awareness public events and video showing
- Sponsored speaker David Loy in 2007 and 2008
- Anti-war and anti-death penalty meditation vigils

Our practice of contemplation and social action is guided by our intention to:
- Recognize the interdependence of all beings
- Meet suffering directly and with compassion
- Appreciate the importance of not clinging to views and outcomes
- Work with Buddhists from all traditions
- Connect individual and social transformation
- Practice nonviolence
- Protect and extend human rights

Some of our members (and an Aung San Suu Kyi puppet) at a recent informational leafletting about the situation in Burma.