The Brooklyn Zen Center announces that it will close its main sangha, a Zen Buddhist priest unsuccessfully sues Attorney General General William Barr and other officials to delay the execution of his student on death row, and China’s Ministry of Education bans books, including those about Buddhism. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world. 

A ceremony encourages Japanese workers to take a break, an LGBTQIA+ Buddhist group launches in Australia, and a Buddhist inmate’s execution is delayed for the second time. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.