Holding Isaac and all of you in our thoughts, always.
Shelly B.

Dharma Gates is connecting young people with the most essential resource for human flourishing: practices to connect with stable, clear, true, compassionate wisdom, passed down to us through rigorous and nuanced teachers who are devoted to the continuation of these wisdom lineages. This helps everything! 

This effort to build a sanctuary of consciousness will be a powerful contribution to make our world and our lives better. 

May all beings receive necessary support on their Dhamma path 🙏

May Isaac’s memory be a blessing always. 💗 - Lysa G 

In honor of Isaac Mintz and the light he brought to his family and community. May his memory be a blessing 

So grateful to have this opportunity to sit with so many dedicated practitioners and to be able to support others around me.

I gave to sponsor the online and in person retreat ministry of Rev. Dave.  His teachings each week are inspiring and guide my practice so much.

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

Dharma Gates 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. 

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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We are a nonprofit, so we rely on the generosity of donors like you.

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