Originally broadcast at 2:00 p.m. ET Thursday, August 25, 2022.

Lama Rod Owens is an author, Buddhist minister, activist, yoga instructor, and authorized Lama in the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. He is one of the leading American Buddhist voices and teaches regularly online and around the world. Lama Rod holds a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School. He is co-author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation and author of Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger.

About Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. As a community, we celebrate, encourage and study the arts and treat them as integral to all of learning, and we convene the critical conversations of the day to advance understanding through civil dialogue. CHQ Assembly is the online expression of Chautauqua Institution's mission.