The Action Research Project is where the MA in Applied Buddhism comes to life. This capstone integrates students’ development as scholar–meditator–practitioners through a values-based, action-oriented research process.
Grounded in action research methodology and contemplative inquiry, students design a practitioner-led project to improve practice within a specific community, institutional, ministerial, or social context. Through cycles of inquiry, action, observation, and reflection, students identify a lived-practice concern, situate it in relevant scholarly and Buddhist contexts, and develop an ethically grounded plan for action and investigation.
Emphasis is placed on reflexivity, relational accountability, and integrating Buddhist values in both the research design and the researcher’s stance.

