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INTRODUCTION NAPCRG celebrated its first 50 years at its 2022 annual meeting. A varied group of members reflected on the organization and its place in family medicine and primary care [...], NAPCRG celebrated 50 years of leadership and service at its 2022 meeting. A varied team of primary care investigators, clinicians, learners, patients, and community members reflected on the organization's past, present, and future. Started in 1972 by a small group of general practice researchers in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, NAPCRG has evolved into an international, interprofessional, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational group devoted to improving health and health care through primary care research. NAPCRG provides a nurturing home to researchers and teams working in partnership with individuals, families, and communities. The organization builds upon enduring values to create partnerships, advance research methods, and nurture a community of contributors. NAPCRG has made foundational contributions, including identifying the need for primary care research to inform primary care practice, practice-based research networks, qualitative and mixed-methods research, community-based participatory research, patient safety, practice transformation, and partnerships with patients and communities. Landmark documents have helped define classification systems for primary care, responsible research with communities, the central role of primary care in health care systems, opportunities to revitalize generalist practice, and shared strategies to build the future of family medicine. The future of health and health care depends upon strengthening primary care and primary care research with stronger support, infrastructure, training, and workforce. New technologies offer opportunities to advance research, enhance care, and improve outcomes. Stronger partnerships can empower primary care research with patients and communities and increase commitments to diversity and quality care for all. NAPCRG offers a home for all partners in this work. Key words: primary care; family practice; general practice; research; organizations; NAPCRG; interdisciplinary research; community-based participatory research

As we white Buddhists begin to deeply examine the sources of white supremacy in our practice, teachings, and communities, the foundational Four Noble Truths provide a powerful contemplative method. With racism deeply embedded in our culture as an emblem of our fundamental suffering, the invitation of the Second Truth is to deeply contemplate how this suffering has arisen historically, presently, personally, and societally. The social craving of white supremacy constructed systems of oppression to preserve power and wealth, and strategic coverup of these systems pervade our culture. The Third Truth recognizes that these systems have been constructed, and they can be dismantled and must. The Fourth Truth reminds us that we all play a role, but explores especially what we individually can do guided by the three trainings--discipline, meditation, and wisdom--to dedicate ourselves to actions that undo racism. KEYWORDS: Four Noble Truths, racism, Buddhist ethics, white privilege, engaged Buddhism, Racism is one of the most important topics in our time, the undoing of which has the potential to transform all of us individually and as a human community. From [...]

Chapter 6 of Shantideva's Guide warns of the dangers of anger for the practicing Buddhist, suggesting that a moment of anger destroys the merit of many lifetimes. How is the social activist to read this warning? This essay traces the distinction between anger (dvesa) and hatred (pratigha) in the text. It goes on to argue for a protreptic rather than ethical or philosophic reading of the Guide, tracing the way to read the text as a genuine guide for reexamining anger, discovering the pain it causes, and opening to the ground of care at the heart of anger. From this point of view, anger provides the valuable doorway for spiritual growth. From a protreptic perspective, Santideva offers a powerful inner journey of transformation that can radically open the heart and prepare the activist for deeper, more resilient, and effective personal and social change. KEYWORDS: Anger, Social Activism, Shantideva, Buddhist meditation, Buddhist Ethics, In the past, compassion was something of a sign of weakness, or anger a sign of power, a sign of strength. Basic human nature is more compassionate. That's the real [...]

While I read Merton in college and was horrified by news reports of his untimely death, it was only in the late 1970s that I really met Merton through the [...]

Through my decades of Tibetan Buddhist practice and interreligious dialogue experience, I have often contemplated an encounter that took place in a bar in the Central Hotel in Calcutta, October [...]

Contemplative pedagogies in higher-education classrooms employ methods adapted from meditative practices in great religious traditions in order to enhance student learning and to fulfill the historic purpose of a liberal [...]

I first met Rita Gross on 2 January 1978, on the day of my arrival to take a professor's post at Naropa University. She opened the front door of Reggie [...]

ON AUGUST 15 84 FOUR JAPANESE emissaries arrived in Lisbon. Strictly speaking, they were not the first Japanese to arrive in Europe, but they were the first official delegates sent [...]

Imperial Fault Lines: Christianity and Colonial Power in India, 1818-1940. By Jeffrey Cox. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2002. xvi + 357 pp. $60.00 cloth. Historians of religion have long [...]

The observer of India in 1997 is rightly struck by the immense stability of this, the world's largest democracy, in contrast with her South Asian neighbours and many other new [...]

Rajnarayan Chandavarkar is well known to historians of India for his work on the Bombay cotton industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and particularly the symbiotic relations [...]

`India's Prisoner': A Biography of Edward John Thompson, 1886-1946, by Mary Lago (Columbia/London: U. of Missouri P., 2001; pp. 388. 29.95 £). `India's Prisoner' was the name given by Mahatma [...]

For decades India was seen by Britain as the corner-stone of her world-wide imperial influence; and as particularly significant in sustaining her economic, military and strategic strength. As independence for [...]

The history of Muslim politics in South Asia already owes a considerable debt to Ayesha Jalal. Her work on Jinnah has shown how shallow were the ideological and organizational roots [...]

Appeal to Hindu nationalism has recently been one of the most novel and perturbing aspects of Indian politics, peaking just before the ill-fated 1991 general election which was marked by [...]

The Cambridge South Asian Studies series has been established for over two decades; it continues to be a major forum in which younger scholars can discuss their research. In Community [...]