The INEB Institute for Buddhist Chaplaincy (IBCC) was founded in January 2025 and is a cooperative, network organization that supports Buddhist chaplaincy training programs specifically in Southeast and South Asia.
Buddhist chaplaincy has been widely developed over the past 30 years in Europe and North America, first in end-of-life care and now in a wide range of fields. In East Asia, it has developed in Taiwan since the early 2000s, mostly in end-of-life care, and in Japan since the early 2010s in disaster trauma, end-of-life care, and suicide prevention.
The focus on Southeast and South Asia, then, is to support the systematic development of chaplaincy in these regions, which already have ancient traditions of monastic service and Buddhist psychology. In East Asia and the West, chaplaincy was developed to envigorate ossified systems of monastic training to transform monks/nuns from doctrinal preachers into compassionate listeners.
This work also includes exposing lay Buddhists, many of whom are training as professionals in a variety of psycho-spirutual care disciplines, to the dynamically changing world of psycho-spiritual therapy. No longer dominated by Freudian models of cognitive therapy, contemporary therapies are increasingly integrating somatic and energetic practices from the yogic traditions of the East.
IBCC has it’s own dedicated website https://www.inebcounseling.net/
