Buddhist Chaplain - Tufts University

The Buddhist Chaplain works with the University Chaplaincy Team in providing overall religious and philosophical leadership for the University community by providing spiritual leadership, spiritual care, mindfulness and Buddhist meditation teaching to the culturally diverse Tufts Buddhist community. The Buddhist Chaplain is responsible for:

• Working with Tufts’ Buddhist student organization, the Tufts Buddhist Mindfulness Sangha (TBMS), to strengthen its insight into Buddhist practice and teaching, to strengthen the quality of kalyana-mitta (spiritual friendship) within the community and to strengthen its relationships with the wider campus community.
• Designing, developing and delivering spiritual educational programming for TBMS and the wider campus.
• Providing spiritual counseling to students and staff, including referrals to other offices and/or spiritual communities as needed.
• Providing overall support for spiritual and ethical life and attending to program administration and collaborative responsibilities with the University Chaplaincy team.

The Buddhist Chaplain must be skilled in lifting up, and working within, cultural heritage contexts of Buddhist practice as well as advocating for, and teaching to, a sangha that is pluralistic in its Buddhist belief and expression. The Buddhist Chaplain should be deeply motivated by serving TBMS’s community, creating and maintaining an inclusive, welcoming environment, and supporting our mission through intentional, collaborative, collegial work, and have a high degree of personal integrity and discretion, with commitment to maintaining confidentiality.