Larry Ward (January 30, 1948 — August 19, 2025)
Larry Ward was a senior teacher in Buddhist Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village tradition. He brought more than twenty-five years of international experience in organizational change and community renewal to his work as director of the Lotus Institute and as an advisor to the Executive Mind Leadership Institute at the Drucker School of Management.
He was the author of America’s Racial Karma and held a Ph.D. in Religious Studies, with an emphasis on Buddhism and the neuroscience of meditation. Larry was a knowledgeable, charismatic, and deeply inspirational teacher, offering wisdom through personal stories and with the resounding clarity that expressed his Dharma name, “True Great Sound.”
His teachings continue to reverberate through the countless lives he touched, carrying forward the compassion, courage, and vision that defined his life and work.
Deepening Practice,
Building Community.
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