Chenxing Han

Chenxing Han is a writer, speaker, and educator whose work explores culture, creativity, and care in Buddhist Asian America. She is the author of Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists and one long listening: a memoir of grief, friendship, and spiritual care, as well as numerous articles and book chapters. Her writing is taught in university, seminary, and high school classrooms across the nation.

Chenxing holds a BA from Stanford University, an MA in Buddhist Studies from the Graduate Theological Union, and a certificate in Buddhist chaplaincy from the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley, California. Trained in Buddhist and interfaith chaplaincy in Cambodia and the San Francisco Bay Area, Chenxing is a frequent speaker and workshop leader. She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, Hemera Foundation, the University of Michigan, and elsewhere.

As a founder of Roots and Refuge, May We Gather, and Listening to the Buddhists in Our Backyard, Chenxing strives to cultivate spaces for creative inquiry, spiritual kinship, and intergenerational learning. Her newsletter, “Little Buddhist Days,” comes out every quarter moon.