Dekila Chungyalpa: Engaging faith leaders for planetary healing
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we welcome our guest Dekila Chungyalpa, who reminds us of our intra-dependant existence with all of life. Traced by a lineage of Tibetan Buddhist practitioners, Dekila weaves together teachings from her cultural and religious upbringing with her work as an environmental program director—from which she invites us to reflect on the ways in which Western conservation efforts fall short. In her work with faith-based organizations, Dekila prompts a dialogue around binary paradigms that persist even within environmental and activist movements.
Join us as we dive further into Dekila’s world and unravel the intricacies of interdependence, deep time, and more.
Episode song feature: Scissor-tailed Flycatcher by Ben White via Spirit House Records
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| 0:54.6 | Given that so many of us feel isolated, I think there is a real power to thinking about |
| 1:01.4 | how collectivist communities, organizations, and wisdom can actually break this sense of |
| 1:08.4 | isolation and polarization. We're at the point when it comes to |
| 1:12.8 | environmental and climate issues where we are really now in crisis. We are at the precipice |
| 1:18.6 | of a cascade of impacts that we actually will not be able to turn around, right? And so how do we think |
| 1:26.5 | of solutions that protect our most vulnerable people? How do we think of solutions that protect our most vulnerable people? |
| 1:29.7 | How do we think of solutions that protect non-human species, right? We need to engage everyone. |
| 1:37.8 | Today we're speaking with Dekela Zhongyalpa, the founder and director of the Loka Initiative. |
| 1:44.9 | She is an accomplished environmental program director with over 20 years of experience in designing and implementing global conservation and climate strategies and projects. |
| 1:55.5 | Known as an innovator in the environmental field, tequila has expertise in faith-led environmental and climate partnerships, |
| 2:02.7 | biodiversity landscape and river basin strategy design, and community-based conservation. |
| 2:12.1 | I come from a place called Sikkim. It used to be a Buddhist kingdom. It was taken over by India in |
| 2:18.3 | 1975. And for those of you who know the Himalayas, it's basically that little wedge that is |
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