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What's New at PBA - November 20, 2025
November 20th, 2025
PBA Hosts its 18th Lighting Our Way Banquet at the Kahala Hotel and Resort Pacific Buddhist Academy and the Kahala Hotel and Resort hosted the 18th Lighting Our Way Banquet on Friday, November 14, an unforgettable culmination to months of planning, imagination, rehearsals ...1 minute read
What's New at PBA - October 20, 2025
October 30th, 2025
PBA’s Autumn House Kicks Off the Admissions Season for Families Thinking about Next School Year We had a pretty great crowd at PBA’s Autumn Open House. Most of an Admissions Open House involves mingling and meeting folks beforehand, publicly sharing a few words of welcome to ...1 minute read
What's New at PBA - October 9, 2025
October 9th, 2025
PBA Celebrates a Student Author Not sure if you’ve had the chance to skim through this week’s Midweek. PBA sophomore Ellen Ruckmänn-Bruch published an article titled “Every Day Is the Best Day” as part of the weekly’s “Chasing the Light” column where she discusses unfortunate assumpt...1 minute read
What's New at PBA - September 25, 2025
September 25th, 2025
Karma as Action: Inspiring Young Minds to Engage“Abuse of AI,” one student called out. “Profiteering from misinformation on social media, rampant political polarization!” offered others. These were some of the topics students expressed to the school community as areas of concern in today’s...1 minute read
What's New at PBA - September 4, 2025
September 4th, 2025
PBA’s 2025 School Camp Brings the School Community Closer TogetherI have been a part of PBA school camp for 22 of 23 PBA school years. I was part of the school’s first camp at Mokulēʻia. We held them there for a few years. Following that, we tried Camp Timberline a few years in a row, and ...1 minute read
What's New at PBA - August 21, 2025
August 21st, 2025
Learning How to Be in Relationship Central to the Learning at PBA When I was seventeen and in my senior year, nothing mattered more to me than friendship. Forging relationships beyond the parental ken while busily imagining college life and working to craft the skills I would need the...1 minute read
What's New at PBA - August 7, 2025
August 7th, 2025
PBA’s Dragon Parents ‘Ohana Welcomes the School Community to the 25-26 School Year! I’ll be the first to admit our annual Welcome Back Meetings had gotten a little stale. Recycle the same slide deck year over year, slot in a few new faces, review your talking points with the a...1 minute read
What's New at PBA - July 17, 2025
July 17th, 2025
International Relations Takes a Bite Out of PBA Programming The 2025-2026 school year was set to begin in an exciting way. After a four-year near-blackout of our Ryukoku Sogo Gakuen Study Abroad Program (RSG SAP) due to COVID-19 and the weak yen – in its heyday the RSG SAP broug...1 minute read
What's New at PBA - June 26, 2025
June 26th, 2025
Closing the Year with Gratitude In our summer school art class, students are learning about zines as non-commercial publications devoted to unconventional and thought-provoking topics. Together, we’ve chosen social justice as our focus. We brainstormed ideas, imaginin...1 minute read
What's New at PBA - June 12, 2025
June 12th, 2025
The Class of 2025 Graduates from Pacific Buddhist Academy: A Brief Epilogue That Friday, my wife and I walked from our Kaka‘ako home to King Restaurant and Bar for the family’s graduation party for my niece Addison Hernandez, who had graduated the previous week with her Cla...1 minute read
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