Summer 2019, Volume 32, #1
Over the past several months, the Northwest Dharma Association team has been convening a series of community roundtables. We met with a wonderful cross-section of people and heard about what matters most to them. We’re pleased to report a growing sense of collaboration and mutual support, among many different Buddhist and Buddhist-inspired communities. These include practitioners and teachers bringing mindfulness…
Reflecting growing awareness of the need for the diversity and inclusion in the dharma, a friend and I developed a series of workshops called “Power, Privilege & Difference: How Buddhist Practice is the Work of Social Restoration.” Most recently in April I led one of these workshops at the Portland Shambhala Center, and Through July, August and September I will…
On an unusually hot day for the Pacific Northwest, some 40 Buddhist teachers converged on Clatskanie, Oregon, to attend the 2019 GenX Buddhist Teachers’ Sangha Gathering (GBTS). The June 12-to-16 gathering of GenX Buddhist leaders from North America and beyond was hosted by Great Vow Zen Monastery. In the rare company of other dharma teachers, of similar age and experience,…
A distinctive new feature of the renovated Seattle Asian Art Museum will be a small gallery designed to invite Buddhist contemplation and meditation. The gallery, set off from the main visitor pathway, will exhibit only four Buddhist works of art, one on each wall, to allow for more empty space than the other galleries. The sparse art installation in the…
Tibetan Buddhists came from around the world for the May 30 to June 3 consecration of the new Phagtsok Gendun Choling Temple on Whidbey Island, Washington. Supporters of Tibetan Lama Kilung Rinpoche funded construction of the wooden 5,000-square-foot temple, to support his teaching program in the West. Whidbey Island is in the Salish Sea, part of which is called Puget…
Join us for our 87th annual Bon Odori festival! Bon Odori is a time of year where we remember all those that have passed away in the previous year and honor their memory with traditional dancing. There is also delicious food, Japanese clothing and items and an awesome community of people!
The Buddhist Recovery Network (BRN) will be hosting the next BRN Summit in Lacey, Washington September 5-8, 2019. The title of this year’s summit is: Recovery: What’s Buddhism Got to Do With It? The Summit will be held at the Gwinwood Retreat Center in Lacey Washington (site of the 2017 summit). Sitting on 29-acres, Gwinwood features 18 acres of forested…
Get away. Turn off your phone. Step back into yourself. Our multi-day residential retreats teach you awareness and concentration practices that lead to beneficial outcomes validated by science. Through guided mindfulness meditation, small group discussions, and movement, you will learn how to calm your mind, direct and sustain attention, explore emotions and thoughts, cultivate compassion, and communicate more authentically with…
Chamtrul Rinpoche studied at Great Kathok Monastery and then at Sertha Larung in Tibet. After many years of rigorous studies he gained a vast and profound knowledge of Buddhism and was given the title Khenpo, an equivalent of Doctor in Buddhist Philosophy. To read more about Chamtrul Rinpoche visit tsintamani.org August 9 Friday – 6 to 8pm Public talk: How…
Discover the profound effects of meditation & yoga in wild nature! Heal, restore, and transform through guided meditations, gentle yoga, mindfulness reflections, and nature-exploration in the stunning Cascades wilderness. Let your mind and body fully unwind, wholly supported from our elegant backcountry camp and organic kitchen (3 meals/day!), inspired by the wisdom of pristine nature and a mindful community…
Waking Up to This Life : A Hungry Ghost Retreat We are all ‘in recovery’ from something… people of all faiths or none are welcome on this retreat. A one-day retreat with Vince Cullen. More info about Hungry Ghost Retreats can be found at http://hungryghostretreats.org/retreats/waking-up/ About this Event ‘Waking Up” is a day-long retreat exploring some Buddhist principles and practices for…
Every year supporters of Buddhist Global Relief join together in fellowship to raise funds for projects we support around the world. This year the Seattle Walk will be held in Seattle on Saturday, September 14. We will meet up at Wisteria Park, 1427 S Main St for a walk to Daejon Park on the I-90 Trail. Registration starts at 10:30….
How does Buddhist meditation practice help us to recognize our racial (and other) biases, both within ourselves, and structurally, as a society? How can it help us to dismantle these often subtle, but deeply rooted obstacles to creating a peace and happiness accessible to all? Please join us for this special opportunity to explore these questions and more, with long…
We are an informal group of dharma practitioners who enjoy inviting Lama Samten to turn the wheel of dharma in the Seattle area. Lama Samten has been visiting Seattle since the early 2000s. About Lama Karma Samten Venerable Lama Samten was born in West Tibet in 1944. He fled his homeland with his brothers, sisters and parents in 1959 when...
The Palmo Center for Peace & Education is founded and directed by the inspiring vision of Venerable Naljorma Jangchup Palmo and her honorable sons, His Eminence Ngalo Rinpoche and Venerable Tulku Jigme Rinpoche. Understanding the global urgency for our world community, we are inspired to fulfill His Holiness the Dalai Lama's vision of global peace and happiness. The Palmo Center...
Our Mission: To empower people with profound, accessible spiritual practices that support their individual and collective work to become better people and to make a better world. We provide powerfully transformative practices from Tibetan Buddhism, adapted into new forms that can meet the hearts and minds of people from all backgrounds and faiths, so as to help them bring out...
Part of the Nyingma tradition, we are an affiliate of the Dharmata Foundation located in Point Richmond, Ca. We meet once a month on a weekend day for meditation and fellowship, listening to a recent audio of Anam Thubten teaching the dharma. Pacific NW retreats are offered every year. Please call for more information.
Dzogchen Shri Singha of Portland (DSSP), founded in 2004, is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization whose mission is to spread authentic Buddhist teachings and to support the enlightened Dharma activity of Great Perfection of Wisdom lineage holder H.E. Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Since its founding, DSSP has sponsored many teachings by the Vajra Master and...
Sakya Kachod Choling is the retreat center for our teacher, H.E. Sakya Jetsun Chimey Luding Rinpoche. We hold group retreats 3 times a year with Her Eminence or other teachers from the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism. We are also open for private retreats of any length all year. It is not necessary to be a student of Her Eminence...
Touching Earth Sangha is a spiritual practice community dedicated to awakening the clarity, joyfulness, and compassion that is our full potential as human beings. We understand that such an awakening is fundamentally nurtured by a responsible and caring way of life in harmony with all living creatures and with our life-giving natural world. And such a non-harming and compassionate way...
Kadampa Buddhism is a Mahayana Buddhist school founded by the great Indian Buddhist Master Atisha (AD 982-1054). His followers are known as 'Kadampas'. Ka refers to Buddha's teachings, and dam to Atisha's special Lamrim instructions known as 'the stages of the path to enlightenment'. Kadampas, then, are practitioners who regard Buddha's teachings as personal instructions and put them into practice...
