{"id":7979,"date":"2026-06-11T17:24:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rigpa.org\/?p=7979"},"modified":"2026-06-11T17:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:49:06","slug":"a-milestone-for-buddhist-chaplaincy-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.rigpa.mindfuldev.one\/fr\/a-milestone-for-buddhist-chaplaincy-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"A Milestone for Buddhist Chaplaincy in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This March, the first group of twenty-one Buddhist practitioners graduated from the Buddhist Chaplaincy course, created by the European Buddhist Union in collaboration with Dharma Gate University in Budapest, the oldest Buddhist university in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What made this training programme unique was its pan-Buddhist approach and emphasis on experiential learning. Developed for and attended by practitioners from the Therav\u0101da, Mah\u0101y\u0101na, Vajray\u0101na&nbsp;tradition, the two-year programme combined online and residential learning with practicums in hospitals, nursing homes, palliative and hospice care, and prisons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By practising and learning together across Buddhist traditions, areas of specialisation, and nationalities, the course was the first step to build a strong foundation for a vibrant European Buddhist chaplaincy sangha. The newly trained chaplains now serve their communities in a variety of ways, and many have already begun working as full-time, part-time, or volunteer chaplains in the public sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new course is already in the planning for autumn 2027. More information<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Image: The new chaplains with course leaders Kirsten De Leo\/Rigpa teacher, Dzogchen Beara and Dario Doshin Girolami\/Zen priest, Rome. \u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This March, the first group of twenty-one Buddhist practitioners graduated from the Buddhist Chaplaincy course, created by the European Buddhist Union in collaboration with Dharma&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"audience":[],"class_list":["post-7979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buddhism-around-the-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.rigpa.mindfuldev.one\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.rigpa.mindfuldev.one\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.rigpa.mindfuldev.one\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.rigpa.mindfuldev.one\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.rigpa.mindfuldev.one\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.rigpa.mindfuldev.one\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.rigpa.mindfuldev.one\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.rigpa.mindfuldev.one\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.rigpa.mindfuldev.one\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.rigpa.mindfuldev.one\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7979"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.rigpa.mindfuldev.one\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=7979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}