Dharma Gates is a nonprofit dedicated to opening pathways into formal meditation practice for young adults. 

Dharma Gates Inc

The Uganda Buddhist Centre was founded in 2005.

The Uganda Buddhist Centre was founded in 2005 by the Most Ven. Bhante Buddharakkhita to align Buddhist teachings within the context of African culture and to exemplify practice of peace, compassion and mindfulness through service to the public. 

Uganda Buddhist Centre

A Buddhist organization working to support Beth Upton and her co-teachers in offering dana-based retreats in the Americas.

Dana Vihara exists to support the activities of Beth Upton’s American sangha. Our sangha holds that the dhamma is priceless, of incomparable and unquantifiable value. We have had the great fortune to receive these teachings freely. Out of gratitude to all the sangha who have preserved these teachings and given them freely through the generations as well as a deep commitment to the dhamma, we are working to build a resilient and sustainable dana culture to support dana-based retreats in the Americas. We exist to receive and house donations offered freely by those who share our resolve to make deep meditation practice accessible to our sangha. Donations are used to secure lodging, food, and other necessary conditions for meditation retreats in the Americas. In this way, we seek to offer the gift of dhamma to all those with the volition to practice, irrespective of financial contribution, so that students can honor the teachings in the proper way - through sincere practice. Your donation will support dedicated practitioners to deepen their dhamma and continue their journey on the path out of suffering.

The ideal act of dana is one in which “the donor, before giving, is glad; while giving, his/her mind is inspired; and after giving, is gratified.” (AN 6.37) Should you choose to make a donation at this time, we sincerely hope you will choose an amount that gladdens and inspires you and respects your financial circumstances.

***Sabbadānaṃ dhammadānaṃ jināti***

***The gift of dhamma surpasses all gifts.***

***Dhammapada 24.354***

*Clarification: Donations made through this website will go exclusively towards funding meditation retreats in the Americas. If you wish to donate to support Beth's youtube videos or online teachings, please do so through her website, bethupton.com.*

Dana Vihara

The North Carolina Zen Center is a Zen Buddhist community and retreat center dedicated to  practice, awakening, and community.

We offer weekly meditation sessions, traditional services, beginners’ instruction and retreats.  We also offer residential opportunities and personal retreats for those who wish to engage with the practice in a more concentrated way.  Outside groups are welcome to rent the Center as well.

The North Carolina Zen Center is located on 15 acres of wooded land south of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It serves both the local community and practitioners across the country.  

North Carolina Zen Center

Reducing global suffering and promoting long-term human flourishing through an in-depth understanding of emergent phenomena

Emergence Benefactors is an incorporated nonprofit 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charity organization supporting the science of emergence.

Emergence: spiritual, mystical, magical, energetic, and related experiences and effects.

We support the practical incorporation of that scientific knowledge into medical, clinical, therapeutic, and public health practices at a global scale to promote better outcomes for people experiencing emergent phenomena.

For donations earmarked to support a specific project or grant, Emergence Benefactors may redirect up to 10% to cover administrative costs.

Emergence Benefactors

Buddhist Faith Fellowship Inc is a nonprofit religious or spiritual organization. It is based in Wethersfield, CT. It received its nonprofit status in 2003.

The Buddhist Faith Fellowship is a nurturing spiritual community where mindfulness flourishes, kindness is practiced, wisdom is embraced, and compassion is at the heart of everything we do.

Here, we strive to inspire the best in each of us through the harmonious blending of classical Buddhism with the heartfelt and practical teachings of Shin Buddhism (Jōdo Shinshū). Rooted deeply in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition, we honor its timeless wisdom while adapting its principles to resonate with the language and culture of the modern Western world. Our fellowship is committed to upholding these values to help individuals find purpose, foster spiritual growth, and walk the path toward enlightenment.

Our mission is to guide all who join us on their Buddhist journey, transforming life’s inevitable suffering (dukkha) into inner well-being and creating the conditions for ultimate spiritual liberation. By engaging in the Three Trainings: ethics, mindfulness and wisdom, and through the teachings of grace, gratitude, and the entrusting heart, we provide a pathway to peace and fulfillment in the present moment and beyond.

We warmly invite everyone to participate in our gatherings, courses, and retreats—no prior knowledge or experience with Buddhism is needed. Our approach to Shin Buddhist teachings is designed to be highly accessible and supportive, offering practical insights that are easy to follow and meaningful for people from all walks of life.

Buddhist Faith Fellowship Inc

Dagom Geden Kunkyob Ling Buddhist Monastery Corp is a nonprofit religious org. It is based in Indianapolis, IN & founded in 2016. 

Our Mission

For the benefit of all sentient beings, Dagom Geden Kunkyob Ling Buddhist Monastery teaches, fosters, and supports the Buddha Dharma in accordance with the Geden Ear Whispered Lineage established by Lama Je Tsongkhapa. 

Our Vision

In our service to others, we gather to:

- Preserve and protect the authentic transmission lineages of the Gelug Tradition founded by the great master Je Tsongkhapa and transmitted through the unbroken line of Gelug masters. In these ways, we guard against the dilution and degeneration of this pure tradition, which we preserve for the sake of all sentient beings.

- Strengthen the roots of Buddhist practice in the West by following the intention of the Buddha and the great founding masters of the past. To this end, all our activities will center around a monastic community that is in alignment with the Vinaya tradition.
- Create a setting for study and practice that welcomes people from every walk of life, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, or religious affiliation. We especially encourage and support those sincerely interested in learning and practicing the peerless teachings of the great teacher Je Tsongkhapa and his lineage-holding disciples.
- Support and assist monastic communities, organizations, or individuals that adhere to the same authentic tradition, especially those that originate in Tibet, India, China, and Mongolia.
- Provide suitable surroundings for the support of and training in the disciplines, practices, and devotion of Tibetan Buddhism so that a vibrant Ordained Sangha can meet the spiritual needs of every person through their studies, prayers, and rituals.
- Be a beacon of loving-kindness and compassion to all seeking refuge and protection as practitioners transform their minds to experience lasting happiness and benefit every sentient being.

Dagom Geden Kunkyob Ling Buddhist Monastery Corp

The Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation works to continue the mindful teachings and loving practice of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay).

The Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation acts as a conduit between our mindful community (Sangha) and the continuation of Thay’s mindful teachings and loving practice. We work mindfully to continue the work of Thich Nhat Hanh, support our practice centers around the world, and engage in Sangha (community) building in order to foster peace and transform suffering in all people, animals, plants and our planet.  

The Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation is a division of the Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism, Inc. (PVCEB) (formerly known as the Unified Buddhist Church). PVCEB is a U.S. nonprofit, tax-exempt charitable organization founded by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Donations are tax-deductible as allowed by law. 

Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation

Lotus Insight Sangha: A Buddhist Community for LGBTQIA+, Non-Binary and Gender Non-Conforming People

Lotus Insight Sangha is a TLGBQIA2S+ community of meditation practitioners in Seattle, Washington. LIS holds frequent opportunities to build feminist, antiracist intergenerational community through meditation practice and investigation of the dharma. In this *sangha*, which means community, our investigation of the dharma and practice connects individual practice with collective liberation.

Through the guidance of the Buddha’s teachings, wisdom of sanghas, and TLGBQIA2S+ resistance we are coming into reality and moving past the common illusions produced by capitalism, white supremacy, settler colonialism, and heteropatriarchy. We are remembering to remember ourselves in the present moment, in shared community, facing our collective reality, and integrating our practice into daily life. This is vital to a world of social justice and wellbeing. 

Through investigation of the dharma and meditation practice, we share the Buddhist  path of liberation to support each other in our journey towards love and wisdom, safety and growth.


Lotus Insight Sangha

Rooted in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, CIMC is a teaching Center for all who seek inner peace through Insight Meditation.

The Cambridge Insight Meditation Center (CIMC) was established in 1985 as a nonprofit, non-residential urban Center for the practice of Insight Meditation (vipassana). Located in the heart of Cambridge, CIMC provides an environment where the contemplative life can be developed and protected amid the complexities of city living. Here, people of all religious and secular persuasions can come together to learn, support and deepen practice.

Rooted in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center is a welcoming refuge and teaching Center for all who seek inner peace through the liberating practice of Insight Meditation. As a community of practitioners, and as an institution, we endeavor to follow the Buddha’s path of ethics, tranquility, wisdom and compassion. An urban center, CIMC is dedicated to the integration of practice into every aspect of community and daily life.

Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

Tibetan Buddhist Center promoting Himalayan culture and supporting young monks at Thupsung Dhargye Ling Monastery in India.   

Chokhor Gepel Ling is a Tibetan Buddhist Center founded by Thupten Rinpoche following the inspiration and guidance of His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama.

Our mission is to provide an environment for contact with Tibetan Buddhism, to promote awareness about Tibetan and Himalayan culture, and to support young monks at our affiliated temple in India, Thupsung Dhargye Ling.  

Our name means: Place of Flourishing of the Buddha's Teachings

Chokhor Gepel Ling

Dharma Voices for Animals is the only international Buddhist animal advocacy organization in the world.

Dharma Voices for Animals (DVA) is a nonprofit organization committed both to practicing the teachings of the Buddha (the Dharma) and to speaking out when the actions of those in Dharma communities and the policies of Dharma centers lead to animal suffering. We want to be the voice of the animals who cannot speak our language. We speak out about the harm we cause other sentient beings when we eat them, use their body parts as clothing, or use products that are tested on them. While DVA recognizes the challenges of living in a complex, modern society, we wish to promote the choices that provide the greatest reduction of animal suffering.

Dharma Voices For Animals

Still Water Mindfulness Practice Center is a nonprofit religious or spiritual organization. It is based in Takoma Park, MD. It received its nonprofit status in 2005.

Still Water Mindfulness Practice Center

Palden Shangpa Vermont Inc is a nonprofit religious or spiritual organization. It is based in Montpelier, VT. It received its nonprofit status in 2010.

Palden Shangpa Vermont Inc

Ligmincha International was established as a non-profit 501(c)3 in 1993. In 2015 we became recognized as a religious institution. 

We are a global community (sangha) of meditators and practitioners of the ancient Bön spiritual tradition of Tibet. The Bön teachings show us how to embrace the joys, sorrows and challenges of life with an open heart. Connecting more fully to ourselves, we connect more fully to life. As the bounded and limited ways we view self and other loosen and open through meditation, the teachings guide us out of suffering toward liberation, or buddhahood. Self-realization is possible for everyone, without exception.

To introduce and support the deepening of meditation practice, we offer [teachings](https://ligmincha.org/practice/), connection through [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/ligminchainternational/), and an online store for books and practice-related items. In recognition of the international nature of our community, we provide real-time translation and/or subtitles in as many as 20 languages. We also maintain five physical [retreat centers](https://ligmincha.org/center/) and have many local [practice groups](https://ligmincha.org/countries/) around the world.

Ligmincha International

IMS is a spiritual refuge for all who seek freedom of mind and heart. 

IMS is a spiritual refuge for all who seek freedom of mind and heart. We offer meditation retreats and online programs rooted in the Early Buddhist teachings of ethics, concentration, and wisdom. These practices help develop awareness and compassion in ourselves, giving rise to greater peace and happiness in the world.

Insight Meditation Society

An organization helping orphans and the disadvantaged youth from human trafficking.

The Community Learning Center - Center of Buddha Dhamma Practice and International Charity or the Community Learning Center for Development of Humanity (CLC) is a non-formal community learning center which provides vocational training courses and job placements for nursing and engineering under-privileged and needy youth who are at risk of drugs and human trafficking. CLC has been successful in helping orphans, poor and disadvantaged youth and children from human trafficking while providing quality education that opens their minds to morality and discipline. CLC also assists its students in finding proper and honorable employment. It also provides scholarships, trains children and youth to be good citizens in society, promotes Thai culture and tradition, and teaches meditation.

Community Learning Center - Center for Buddha Dhamma Practice and International

Support our neighbors who help each other

Buddhist International Relief NGO 'ThePromise' (Founder: Ven. Myojang) is often referred to as the 'Buddhist 119.' Its operational scope spans the entire globe. Since its establishment in 2008, ThePromise, a non-profit organization recognized by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (UN ECOSOC) with special consultative status, has been dedicated to providing critical aid and support to communities worldwide affected by various disasters. The organization has aimed to be a representative relief entity for the Buddhist community, akin to the ‘Red Cross’ in the West and the ‘Red Crescent Society’ in the Islamic countries. To broaden its reach and appeal, it chose an English name with less religious connotation.

Since its founding, International NGO ThePromise has responded to global disasters such as: the 2010 Haiti earthquake, 2011 East Japan earthquake, 2015 Nepal earthquake, 2022 Ukraine conflict, and the 2023 Turkey earthquake. Domestically, it has aided in the 2017 Pohang earthquake, 2022 Donghae wildfires, the 2023 Gangneung wildfire and Yecheon flood, the 2024 flood in Daejeon Jeongbang Village and Jeju air crash at the Muan international airport. 

**Major Initiatives**

Our work encompasses a wide range of humanitarian and environmental initiatives:

- **Climate Crisis**: We introduced climate budgeting, support disaster response and climate adaptation for immigrant families, and develop educational tools for environmental sustainability. For example, we provided emergency relief through a local youth-led team during the Timor Leste floods and deployed the nation's first Disaster Welfare Assistance Team (DWAT) for five weeks to support shelters during the East Coast wildfires.
- **Mental Health** : We support global neighbors in crisis by providing psychological aid to disaster-affected individuals, helping them regain strength. Our International Disaster Psychological Support Team AEGIS, known for its global experience, operates extensively at disaster sites. Recognized by UNHCR, our "Family-based Disaster Response Board Game," developed with support from global gaming company, Electronic Arts (EA), enhances disaster response capabilities for migrant families in Korea.
- **Humanitarian Aid**: Conducting emergency relief operations for natural disasters and providing urgent food aid to communities affected by the Myanmar coup and the Ukraine conflict.

**Award History**

We are honored to have received several awards recognizing our contributions, including:

- **Samsung CSR Partner Award (2016)**
- **The 27th Manhae Prize for Practical Contribution (2023)**: The aim of the prize is to help honor and disseminate the works of those individuals and groups who most exemplify the principles and noble aims of the Reverend Manhae.

**Countries of operation**

South Korea, Haiti, Japan, Nepal, Ukraine, Türkiye, Syria, Timor-Leste, Thailand, Israel, Palestine, Morocco, Myanmar, Bhutan, Vietnam, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Marshall Islands,Malawi, Tibet,etc.

**Join Us in Promising a Safe Society**

As we continue our mission, we invite you to join us in making a difference. Together, we can build a resilient and safe society for all, ensuring that in times of crisis, no one is left behind. For more information or to support our initiatives, please contact us at 02-735-3119 or visit our office at 708 Saemunan-ro-42, 7th floor, Jongno-gu, Seoul.

Together, let's promise a safer tomorrow with International NGO ThePromise.

International NGO ThePromise

A "home for meditation in nature" featuring low-cost retreats in a stunning wilderness setting just 30 min west of Boulder, CO.

Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center

We provide research-based support and education about meditation-related adverse effects 

● Cheetah House provides direct face-to-face consultations, peer support, and support groups to individuals who are experiencing meditation-related adverse effects, and their families.  
● Cheetah House also provides education and training about meditation-related adverse effects to clinicians, and meditation teachers and organizations. 
● Cheetah House was founded by Brown University professor Willoughby Britton PhD, one of the world's experts on meditation-related adverse effects.

Cheetah House

Our top-rated Nonprofit safeguards and shares Himalayan meditation and indigenous knowledge from the ancient Sanskrit heritage.

Self Enquiry Life Fellowship is a nonprofit organization with worldwide outreach guided by the monastic wisdom of the Hansavedas Mission. The Nonprofit, with its headquarters in California, preserves indigenous knowledge from the Sanskrit heritage, including: extant literature on spiritual philosophy that is meaningful to modern inquiry; spiritual practices of Vedic antiquity that bring about peace in our communities through mindful participation; Himalayan yoga-vinyāsa and Ayurveda that promote wellness and mindfulness in daily living; and Himalayan meditation techniques of unbroken lineages which bring about mental clarity and compassion through self-empowerment, ultimately guiding the meditator to liberation.

The organization is enriched with extraordinary guidance from several Vedic monks of ancient monastic orders. It is rare for reclusive Himalayan monks, who have penanced in Himalaya, to become available to seekers or devotees and serve by disseminating precious streams of knowledge. His Holiness Swami Vidyadhishananda, who is one such ordained Vedic monk of the Giri monastic order, is the spiritual head of the Hansavedas Mission and the spiritual founder of the Nonprofit.

We are committed to the highest level of ethics and have earned the Guidestar Platinum Seal of Transparency. See our profile: guidestar.org/profile/20-3478668. We have also been honoured as a Top-Rated Nonprofit for several years in a row on GreatNonprofits.org.

Hansavedas Fellowship

We provide in-depth, highly relational mindfulness education for youth and the parents and professionals who support them.

Young people deserve our best attention and the greatest support we can offer, especially when it comes to teaching them the tools and resources they need to nurture their minds, spirit, and bodies.

We stand on the foundation of a 35-year lineage of teen mindfulness which began with retreats offered in Barre, Massachusetts in 1989. Since our humble beginnings, we have grown to be the national leader in immersive mindfulness education with our beloved teen retreats having been offered to 4,000+ alumni.

With a belief that justice and equity are at the center of youth wellbeing, our offerings also include specific programs for affinity groups such as BIPOC and LGBTQIA+. Programs aimed at more systemic impact include our internationally accredited Teacher Training program and custom programming in partnership with schools and youth-serving organizations across the country. Our programs seek to complement and amplify the impacts of in-school programs and to expand the value and capacity that youth-serving professionals have for sharing in-depth mindfulness experiences with youth.

At their core, the diverse community of Inward Bound teens and adult leaders seek to create healthier inner and outer worlds. They come from the edges of toxic dominant cultures with the belief that another way of living is not only possible, but a fundamental right. Our extensive network of 120+ staff, teachers, health coordinators, and mentors are experts in the fields of youth development, mental health, and education, and have lived experiences that deeply reflect the teens they serve. They exemplify authenticity, compassion, and respect, upholding a strong code of ethics. In fact, some of our leaders today were participants in the first teen retreats offered in 1989.

Perhaps our most distinctive capacity for success is our Collaborative Leadership (CL) System which emphasizes shared decision-making and robust feedback, and creates more pathways for community members, especially youth, parents, and partners, to have increased input and investment. This organizational structure, which has no Executive Director, is the result of our equity commitments and examinations of how power is distributed within our organization. It was researched and developed for three years with the consult of international leaders in the field before being fully launched in January 2020. At the core of the CL System are the full-time staff and five standing committees that include a 9-member Youth Advisory Committee and 6-member Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Committee. Need-based stipends are available to support committee member participation.

Inward Bound Mindfulness

The Himalayan Children's Fund is a way for people around the world, and the west in particular, to connect with the lives of people in the Himalayan Region of Nepal, India and Tibet. Established in 1987 by students of Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche.

The Himalayan Children's Fund is a way for people around the world, and the west in particular, to connect with the lives of people in the Himalayan Region of Nepal, India and Tibet. Established in 1987 by students of Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche, the HCF provides support Rinpoche's many compassionate activities such as schools, monasteries and free clinics. By providing support for education, food, clothing, medicine and other needs we hope to equip the children and adults with the tools necessary for life enhancement while helping to preserve the culture of the people which is primarily of Tibetan and Buddhist heritage.

Himalayan Children's Fund

Studio Zero develops programming and resources on the subjects of meditation, philosophy, theology and the contemplative life.

In the past ten years we have helped hundreds of people to find greater serenity in their lives through meditation practice.

We have sponsored over 100 days of residential retreat practice.

A surprisingly large part of our impact has been among seniors, who have benefited from our gentle techniques.

Many have found our services to be supportive of longterm recovery from addiction.

Our non-sectarian approach to spiritual development has been beneficial to people both inside and outside of traditional religious communities.

Studio Zero Inc

Our Lady Of The Resurrection Monastery is a nonprofit organization in Lagrangeville, NY. It received its nonprofit status in 1977.

**Mission:**

Our mission as a faith community is to empower people of all backgrounds and ages to embark on a journey of engaged spirituality, fostering healing within themselves through contemplation, study, nurturing harmonious relationships within the beloved community, and deepening their connection to all beings and the Earth. Drawing from the wisdom of contemplative Christianity and Buddhism, and worldwide monastic traditions, we seek healing at all levels to contribute to the wellbeing of all life and our precious planet. 

**To achieve our mission, we commit to:**

1. **Cultivating Integrity:** We live by and transmit ethical and earth-based precepts or guidelines that are the foundation for living with integrity and purpose on behalf of all life.
2. **Providing Spiritual Guidance:** We offer ongoing spiritual training, including religious instruction, one-on-one and small-group spiritual direction and guidance, solo and group residential silent and contemplative retreats, grounded in nature. 
3. **Facilitating Spiritual Growth in Community:** We lead communal worship and spiritual practice, providing a sacred space for contemplative and earth-based practices, meditation, prayer, service, and opportunities for spiritual growth within a healthy and nurturing community that offers mutual accountability and support. 
4. **Maintaining Sacred Spaces:** We establish and maintain a congregation, a house of worship, and a retreat space. These spaces--which all lie within a larger natural space of forest, sky, earth, rock and living beings, and that we relate to as our kin, as sacred, and as our teacher--provide sanctuary for those seeking spiritual maturity.
5. **Engaging for Change:** We actively engage with the pressing social and ecological crises of our times, based in our contemplative experience which leads to the wisdom of non-discrimination. We avoid othering by not getting caught in ideology. We look deeply to understand the harms caused by systemic racism and white supremacy, patriarchy, materialism, capitalism and its resulting inequalities, ecological devastation, militarism and the war economy, and religious nationalism. Through informed action and engagement, we work towards personal, social, and ecological healing and transformation, actively contributing to the betterment of our world. 
6. **Offering Radical Welcome:** Our community is inclusive and welcoming to all peoples. We are especially attentive to the needs of younger adults and youth and orient our community with future generations in mind. We offer radical welcome to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, as well as Queer and trans folks and their experiences, co-creating brave and affirming space.  

In pursuing these six core principles, we seek to embody the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh, and the worldwide monastic contemplative traditions, working wholeheartedly to create a beloved community that empowers people to be beacons of compassion and agents of just and ecological living in the world. In the deepening of engaged spiritual fellowship as well as the ecological focus of a more earth-centered spirituality and living, we transcend boundaries, embrace compassion, and nurture the interconnectedness of all life through the principles of reciprocity and interbeing. We seek to uproot and transform all forms of injustice and oppression into love.

**About Adam Bucko and Kaira Jewel Lingo**

Father Adam Bucko, an Episcopal priest, and Rev. Kaira Jewel Lingo, a Buddhist Dharma teacher in the Plum Village Zen and Vipassana lineages, were appointed as directors and board members of Our Lady of the Resurrection Monastery, Inc., a religious nonprofit organization. In this capacity, they became guardians of the monastery and its mission. They seek to revitalize and develop the 22-acre site to continue its original mission of contemplation and renewed forms of monastic living while also establishing it as a Christian-Buddhist Retreat and Training Center. It will host spiritual retreats and serve as a sanctuary dedicated to peace and reconciliation. You can read a little bit about our life as a Buddhist-Christian couple here: [https://www.lionsroar.com/navigating-marriage-as-a-buddhist-christian-couple/](https://www.lionsroar.com/navigating-marriage-as-a-buddhist-christian-couple/)

**The History of Our Lady of the Resurrection Monastery**

Our Lady of the Resurrection is nestled on a secluded hilltop in Dutchess County. The monastery was founded by Victor-Antoine d’Avila-Latourrette, a French monk who lived there as a hermit monk for more than 40 years. His daily life was rooted in and dictated by the natural rhythms of the earth as he followed the monastic Rule of St. Benedict and listened to God "with the ear of the heart" while tending the gardens, growing food, feeding the animals, offering spiritual guidance to visitors, and sanctifying his days with the prayers of the liturgy of the hours.

One media outlet said of Brother Victor in 2001, "He has a terminal case of serenity, and he wants to pass it on" to those who come to the monastery for prayer and guidance. "To live fully in the present," Brother Victor said, "we must be aware that reality is physical and spiritual, immediate and eternal, all at the same time." "People imagine monks praying, chanting, and reading," he said, "not scrubbing floors and milking cows. They are often astonished to discover that for us, prayer and work are the same thing."

Brother Victor suffered a debilitating stroke in the summer of 2014 and died February 28, 2023, at the age of 83. We are grateful to have him as our spiritual ancestor now. 

Our Lady Of The Resurrection Monastery Inc C O Benedictine Monk

Drangsong Foundation works in service to the wisdom sciences of Asia. 

Our mission is to serve the medical and wisdom traditions of Asia; an offering to the lineages that have inspired us and countless others over the millennia. As a registered nonprofit organization in California, we have active projects in Nepal and India. 

We work with the [Sowa Rigpa International College](https://sorigcollege.org), the first accredited college program teaching the science of Tibetan & Himalayan medicine in Nepal. There, we are developing educational and research programs, and helping with fundraising efforts to support the college and sponsor students. 

In addition, our team translates and researches texts from Tibetan and Sanskrit languages on traditional medicine and spiritual practices. 

Drangsong Foundation

Spirit Rock Meditation Center is dedicated to the teachings of the Buddha as presented in the vipassana tradition. We provide silent meditation retreats, as well as classes, trainings, and dharma study opportunities for new and experienced students.

Spirit Rock Meditation Center

A 501c3 educational nonprofit. Our mission is to foster and catalyze embodied resilience, joyful thriving, & radical curiosity.

The Awakening in Life Foundation is led by teacher, Ryan Oelke, and offers meditation teaching and support for individuals and groups through transparent generosity. 

Our mission is to foster and catalyze embodied resilience, joyful thriving, radical curiosity, and an integral, heartful response in individuals and communities, in our global planetary culture facing ever increasing complexity, challenges, and crises.

We do this through focusing on the practical domains of waking up, cleaning up, growing up, and showing up, achieved through:

Educational programming, trainings, learning materials, and practical guides
Teaching and creating with a strong focus on accessibility of the teachings, practices, and learning communities of Awakening in Life.
Translation efforts to make teachings, practices, and resources accessible and digestible in multiple languages, cultures, and communities across the world, especially underserved language communities, and to support and catalyze the creation of new works in those languages and communities from their unique cultural voice. Our primary language of focus for translation at this time is Spanish.

Awakening In Life Foundation

The Tashi Lhunpo Foundation  is committed to supporting Tashi Lhunpo Monastery in exile located in Bylakuppe, India.

Tashi Lhunpo Foundation

The 3 Doors is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming lives through meditation for the benefit of all.


The 3 Doors is an international nonprofit dedicated to transforming lives through meditation practices grounded in wisdom and compassion. Founded in 2010 by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, a Tibetan meditation master, The 3 Doors is a vibrant, ever-expanding practitioner community committed to supporting one’s natural inclination to serve the well-being of others. 

Our signature program is the 2.5-year Academy, a deep dive into meditation as a form of reflection supporting positive outward expression. In addition, we offer a variety of programs and practice groups to support people to discover the power of meditation for improved personal wellbeing, better relationships, and beneficial action in the world.

The 3 Doors

Wake Up To Reality (WUTR) serves individuals passionate about spiritual awakening and living a life of love and service to Truth.

Wake Up To Reality (WUTR) is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that serves individuals who are passionate about spiritual awakening, consciousness, and practical, embodied practices for living a life of love and service to Truth.

James Wood is the Cofounder and lead teacher of WUTR as well as the author of Ten Paths to Freedom: Awakening Made Simple. James teaches from his own realization of Truth and compassion as it is lived in the world. He is dedicated to communicating the essence of the Teaching to those who are ready to receive it.

Aly Waibel, PhD is the Cofounder of WUTR and a teacher of compassion cultivation and meditation.

James and Aly are married and enjoy living in Central Oregon with their two adorable dogs.

Wake Up to Reality

Atma Vicara-Stillness Speaks: 501(C)3 (since 2013): offers spiritual resources for self inquiry via multiple traditions & teachers

Stillness Speaks® (the website portal for Atma Vicara non-profit organization) is a resource for self inquiry and self exploration – the endless journey of self realization.

We offer works of teachers and traditions, both historical and contemporary, Eastern and Western, indigenous and otherwise. *Our approach is integral – all are welcome!*

Traditions are Nonduality, Zen & Buddhism, Kashmir Shaivism, Science/Poetry/Art intersection with Consciousness, Eclectic, Taoism, Sufism, Christianity, Eclectic, & more.

Teachers is a very large list - including Ramana Maharshi, Gautama Buddha, Dalai Lama, Rumi, Eckhart Tolle, Swami Lakshmanjoo, Lao Tzu, Thich Nhat Hanh, Joan Halifax, Stan Grof, Peter Russell, Alan Watts, Gangaji, Rupert Spira, Francis Lucille, Jean Klein, Wu Wei, Deepak Chopra, Richard Davidson, John Dunne, David Eagleman, Elias Amidon, and MANY more.

Atma Vicara

We introduce strategies for suburban, post-peak oil, sustainable transition in a living outdoor classroom with gardens, beehives, chickens, hügelkultur, mushroom cultivation, and composting.

We introduce strategies for suburban, post-peak oil, sustainable transition in a living outdoor classroom with gardens, beehives, chickens, hügelkultur, mushroom cultivation, and composting.  Our approach is to reintroduce simple, contemplative practices to the general public through free classes with hands on experiences with plants, projects, food, meditation, and ecology in Northeast Ithaca and Cortland County. We are all about educating people who can make changes in their own lives and the communities in which they live and become teachers and living examples of the skills they learn here, in whatever contexts they choose to live.

**The Problem**

There are two colliding trends in this stage of American society as we confront the realities of climate change, mass extinction, and ecosystem collapse: the increasing pressure on our students, future global leaders, to measure their success in broadly (but strictly) economic terms and concomitantly, the rise of “mindfulness training” as a commodity. Highly motivated and passionate students, often have a limited tool kit for cultivating a textured and meaningful life while studying at Cornell: students who can discuss the theories of social justice and food security but have no hands on experience growing a plant, let alone preparing even a simple meal; students who are driven to be more mindful and calm, but the only access they have to training their minds outside of intellectual endeavors is through apps on their phones and computers.
  
Fallen Tree Center was created to provide a non-denominational context in which students can combine a practical experience of cultivating a more sustainable lifestyle with real hands-on work and non-competitive learning, and a daily meditation practice that includes using daily activity as meditation (called samu in Japanese).
 
**Our Approach**

Our approach is that one learns through doing.  One learns, does, and then learns to teach what one has embodied through practical experience. We offer summer internships and classes where students learn to connect their heads to their hands through the practical skills of everyday life: cooking, fermentation, bread-baking, cleaning a house, gardening, caring for poultry, building projects, hügelkultur, beekeeping and more. We rely on many experts in our community, so the quality of education is first rate but not offered within the context of a graded class. In 2018, we added a 40-acre tract of land in Cortland County to our offerings and have a small cabin there for meditation, bird watching, and insect habitat conservation (particularly monarch butterflies). Students have been active participants in creating the nature preserve at this place in Freetown, NY, near McGraw. The long-term plans are to maximize the use of Fallen Tree as a concept, both in its Ithaca base on Muriel Street and the new nature preserve in Freetown, with the core focus being on cultivating Cornell students and other young people, whether for a weekend or a summer internship. 
  
Since starting in 2015, Fallen Tree Center has offered summer classes for free and uses Cornell interns as both learners and also teaching associates, but the free public classes (offered twice a week) are brought to those who are extremely poor in our region. In any given summer, our free summer class members include marginalized people within the Ithaca community looking to cultivate a garden in their apartment complex, migrants or newly arrived refugees living in our region hoping to advance their skill sets as gardeners and community members, elderly, non-English speakers, retired, or partially disabled people, and Cornell students. Our classes often give people who are marginalized in some ways (economically, culturally, linguistically) a chance to become teachers in their own right, educating us about food systems, plants and even pickling methods in our fermentation work. For our Cornell students, this is critical, as our students encounter a great deal of diversity in many areas, but not much in terms of educational diversity.  A major component of our classes is working directly with whatever language groups sign up, and we have had classes where people spoke only Burmese, Chinese, Spanish or Arabic. In our classes, we start from the perspective that hands on work is its own language and working together builds bonds that can transcend difference. This actually works (really!) and with google translate and good translators a few times a week, we manage to create deep and enduring relationships surrounding our common goal of connecting to our daily lives with a quiet mind and an attentive presence. We also have a great time and learn a lot of creative and global ways to use space, create built environments, and prepare food.
 
**Our Team**

Director, Jane Marie Law, Associate Professor of Japanese Religions, Fellow, Atkinson Center for Sustainability, Cornell University
  
**Advisory Board**
  
 

- Su George, Senior Lecturer in Chinese, Cornell University 
- Sorayya Khan, novelist, Ithaca, NY 
- Ven. Masaki Matsubara, Ph.D. head Priest Butsumoji Zen Temple, Chiba, Japan (lives in NYC)  
- Nancy Thompson, retired elementary school teacher, Cortland, NY School District and avid up-cycler and creator of sustainable fashion 
- Kelly Wessel, Professor of Ecology and Sustainability, TC3 
 
**Contact information** 

Jane-Marie Law
[jml16@cornell.edu](mailto:jml16@cornell.edu)   607-229-3431
   

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