Study Materials
Important Teachings in Buddhism
| Online Study Materials | |
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| Access to Insight | Extensive listing of books, articles, readings and FAQs on Theravada Buddhism, including more than a thousand Sutta translations from the Pali canon. |
| Dharma Audio Resources | |
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| Dharma Seed | A collection of Dharma talks by teachers in the Vipassana or Insight practices of Theravada Buddhism. Talks by most Insight Meditation Society affiliated teachers can be found on this site. |
| Audio Dharma | An archive of Dharma talks given by Gil Fronsdale and various guest teachers at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California. |
| Everyday Zen | Talks by Zoketsu Norman Fischer, director of the Everyday Zen Foundation, an organization in Oakland, CA dedicated to adapting Zen Buddhist teachings to Western culture. |
| Birken Forest Monastery | Dharma talks and chants by monastics of Theravada Buddhism in the Thai Forest tradition at Birken Forest Monastery near Kamloops, B.C. |
| Bodhi Monastery | Audio and written study materials by the Venerable Bikkhu Bodhi at the Bodhi Monastery in Sussex County, New Jersey. |
| Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery | Talks by Ajahn Passano and other monks at Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery in Redwood Valley, California, in the Thai forest tradition of Ajahn Chah and Ajahn Sumedo. |
| Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC | Talks by Tara Brach, clinical psychologist and senior teacher and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington D.C. |
Books & Articles by Rodney Smith
- Beginning Our Practice
- In the Spirit of Generosity
- Wise View
- Listening Is The Way In
- Noninterference
- Sangha
- Selfless Practice
- Spiritual Friendship
- The Challenge of Practicing With Illness
- Working With Trauma
- Practice through Service
- Book - Touching the Infinite
- Book - Awakening - A Paradigm Shift of the Heart
- Dharma Etiquette
- In the Spirit of Generosity
- Meditation and Dealing with Difficult Emotions
- Meditation and the Urge for Fulfillment
- Social Outreach
- A Complete Path to Awakening
- Compassionate Action
- Continuum of Practice
- False Boundaries
- Finding the Sacred
- The Essence of Practice
- Book - Stepping Out of Self-Deception
- Book - Lessons From the Dying
| Residential Retreat Centers | |
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| Cloud Mountain Retreat Center | A non-sectarian Buddhist center in Castlerock, WA, 125 miles south of Seattle, hosting residential retreats year-round. |
| IMS Retreat Center | Insight Meditation Society's Retreat Center in Barre, Massachusetts is the home of Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, and other leading teachers in the Insight Meditation tradition. It offers a yearly schedule of meditation courses for both new and experienced practitioners. |
| IMS Forest Refuge | Insight Meditation Society's Forest Refuge is designed to support the practice of more experienced meditators. It offers sustained, longer-term personal retreats. |
| Barre Center for Buddhist Studies | Located 1/2 mile from IMS in Barre, MA, BCBS offers a variety of courses, workshops, retreats, and self-study programs to further research, study, and practice. |
| Spirit Rock | Audio and written study materials by the Venerable Bikkhu Bodhi at the Bodhi Monastery in Sussex County, New Jersey. |
| Spirit Rock | Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, CA is dedicated to the teachings of the Buddha as presented in the vipassana tradition. The Center hosts a full program of residential retreats, ongoing classes, and daylong programs. |
| Gaia House | Gaia House is a sanctuary of contemplative calm, set amongst the gentle hills and woodlands of South Devon in England. Gaia House offers meditation retreats from various Buddhist traditions led by teachers from all over the world. It is the home of Christina Feldman, one of the Guiding Teachers of IMS. |
| Local Monasteries in the Seattle Area | |
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| Clear Mountain Monastery | Extensive listing of books, articles, readings and FAQs on Theravada Buddhism, including more than a thousand Sutta translations from the Pali canon.Clear Mountain’s first monastics, Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho, currently live on the quiet periphery of Seattle, going for alms most mornings at the Pike Place Market. On Saturday mornings, those interested gather at Amistad School’s Skinner Auditorium by St. Mark’s Cathedral for meditation and a teaching. As faithful come together, a new community based on the mutual generosity and interdependence of monastics and local Buddhists may begin to grow. |
| Passaddhi Vihara | Located in Olympia, Washington Two Bhikkhunīs practicing for awakening have come to the Pacific Northwest to develop a monastery, Passaddhi Vihara, dedicated to bhavana (the practice leading to liberation, the heart’s release, Nibbāna). The first phase continues! – a rental located in West Olympia, Washington State with online Dhamma programs. |
| Saranaloka Foundation | Located in Port Townsend, Washington Saranaloka Foundation is a registered nonprofit that supports two locations: Aloka Earth Room and Pārāyana Vihāra The Saranaloka Foundation’s mission is to empower female monastics to teach and train. |
