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Insight Meditation Community of Colorado was founded in 1993 to provide support for
Rocky Mountain Insight Meditation sitting groups, retreats and other practice opportunities
emanating from the Theravada Buddhist tradition. The group is
similarly linked to other Insight groups throughout the nation. |
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Dharma Seed is a non-profit Theravada
Buddhist organization formed in the early 1980s. The group is
dedicated to collecting and distributing dharma talks and
transmitting the Vipassana or Insight practices of Theravada
Buddhism. It has many online Buddhist resources. |
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Barre Center for Buddhist Studies is a
non-profit meditation school
and retreat center initially formed in 1975 as the Insight
Meditation Society. It is regarded as one of the Western world's
most respected centers for learning and deepening meditation
practice. Facilities are located in central Massachusetts. |
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Spirit Rock is
a spiritual education and training institution with meditation center
located at Woodacre, California. Its strives to help
people along the Buddha's path of liberation through direct
experience. The programs are grounded in the Buddhist teachings
inherent in the Pali discourses. |
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Vipassana Dhura Meditation Society
is a non-profit organization formed in 1986 to make the
teachings of insight meditation available to anyone who seeks a
way out of suffering. The organization has many on line
resources, is located in Aurora, Colorado and has close
ties to Wangplado, Thailand. |
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Shambhala Global Community was founded by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in the 1970s and now
has more than 170 centers worldwide. In the west, Trungpa's son, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, now leads the group which teaches meditation in the Shambhala
and Tibetan Buddhist traditions. |
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Shambhala Mountain Center is a 600 acre retreat center founded in 1971 and located in northern Colorado.
The center houses the Great Stupa of Dharmakaya and offers hundreds of programs on Buddhist meditation, yoga and other contemplative disciplines. |
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Gampo Abbey is a Western Buddhist Monastery founded in 1984 in Nova Scotia
and follows the Shambhala Tradition. The current heads of the monastery are Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche and Pema Chödrön under the spiritual direction of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. |
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Sky Lake is a Shambhala contemplative center for meditation, the arts and the community
located in the Shawangunk Mountains of New York. The center offers weekend retreat programs and workshops of Buddhism and Shambhala Arts. |
