Northwestern University
Northwestern University 633 Clark Street …
Bhumisparsha
Bhumisparsha 440 N. Barranca Ave. …
Five Wisdoms Institute
Five Wisdoms Institute 1795 Boxheart Drv. #339 …
Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute 200 Willoughby AvenueBrooklyn, NY 11205website: pratt.edu …
Tashi Gatsel Ling
Tashi Gatsel Ling PO Box 1883Gray, ME 04039website: tashigatselling.org Description of Organization: Tashi Gatsel Ling began in Freeport, Maine in 1990s when as a monk in his mid-forties Khen Rinpoche was visiting the state and learning English. He had a strong wish to transmit authentic Buddhist Dharma in the West. Twice each…
Village of Love and Resistance
Village of Love and Resistance 121 N. Broadway 2nd Floor …
Profound Treasury Dharma Foundation, The
The Profound Treasury Dharma Foundation 32 Palmer Avenue …
Institute of Buddhist Studies, The
The Institute of Buddhist Studies 2140 Durant Avenue …
Sukhasiddhi Foundation
Sukhasiddhi Foundation 736 Adobe Drive …
Soto Zen Buddhist Association
Soto Zen Buddhist Association 2111 San Pablo Ave, PO Box 2452Berkeley, CA 94702website: szba.org …
Secular Dharma Foundation
Secular Dharma Foundation 40200 Sunridge Ct. …
Village Zendo
The Village Zendo 260 West Broadway …
Triratna Ordination Training
Triratna Ordination Training 113 Richdale Avenue #26 …
New York University
New York University 295 Lafayette Street …
Treasure Caretaker Training
Treasure Caretaker Training 1345 Spruce Street, 2nd FloorBoulder, CO 80302Website: treasurecaretaker.com …
Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute 200 Willoughby Avenue …
Pastoral Care and Counseling Institute
Pastoral Care and Counseling Institute 104 Jones Ferry Road, Suite JCarrboro, NC 27510website: pcci.org …
Palyul Changchub Dargyeling Ohio
Palyul Changchub Dargyeling Ohio 3750 W Streetsboro Rd …
TLC Transitional Life Care
TLC Transitional Life Care 1135 Rose Ave …
Dharmadatta Community
Dharmadatta Community 8663 Old Rapidan Road Orange, VA 22960Website: http://www.dharmadatta.org/en/ …
Creating Freedom Movements
Creating Freedom Movements 960 Yuba Street …
Buddhist Prison Ministry
Buddhist Prison Ministry PO Box 426 …
Buddhist Churches of America
Buddhist Churches of America 1710 Octavia St.San Francisco, CA 94109-4341Website: buddhistchurchesofamerica.org …
Freedom Together
Freedom Together 1187 Coast Village Rd. #342 …
Boundless in Motion
Boundless in Motion 3655 Smuggler Place …
Bhumisparsha
Bhumisparsha 440 N. Barranca Ave. …
Bodhi Manda Zen Center
Bodhi Manda Zen Center 1 Bodhi Lane …
Five Wisdoms Institute
Five Wisdoms Institute 1241 Idylberry Rd. …
Beyond the Cell
Beyond the Cell 445 S. Figueroa St.Los Angeles, CA 90071Website: beyondthecell.org Description of Organization: Beyond the Cell is a program dedicated to educating and empowering incarcerated women. Beyond the Cell aims to heal the scars of trauma, stigma, bullying, social isolation, and exclusion by employing specific education strategies supported by neuroscience. Participants connect with themselves and…
Dhammadharini
Dhammadharini 6791 Sturtevant Dr. …
Lotus Institute, The
The Lotus Institute PO Box 1428 Pataskala, OH 43062Website: thelotusinstitute Description of Organization: The Lotus Institute was founded in 1996 by Dr. Larry Ward and Dr. Peggy Rowe Ward, two of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s senior Dharma teachers. The Lotus Institute offers teachings, practice and guidance that nurture a healthy and resilient body and…
Tadini House, The
The Tadini House 253 N 55th PlaceMesa, AZ 85205Website: thetadinihouse Description of Organization: The Tadini House (TtH) began in 2016 as a place to provide beautiful and healing spaces where those incarcerated can feel welcomed to flourish. One-to-one meeting sessions were established along with providing initial services (work boots, drug test funding, bus pass and…
Shambhala USA
Shambhala USA 1345 Spruce Street Boulder, CO 80302 Website: shambhala.org Description of Organization: Shambhala USA was founded in the 1970s by Tibetan Buddhist meditation master Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Shambhala is a meditation-based religious global non-profit with offices in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Boulder, Colorado, with six affiliated Land Centers and over 150 affiliated Centers and…
One River Zen
One River Zen 121 E Prospect AveOttawa, IL 61350Website: oneriverzen.org Description of Organization: One River Zen is a non-profit Buddhist temple founded in 2021 dedicated to empowering all to open to life fully by embodying wisdom and compassion through the practices of mindfulness and meditation. Their mission is dedicated to bringing life-changing mindfulness and meditation…
Honpa Hongwanji of Hawaii Betsuin
Honpa Hongwanji of Hawaii Betsuin 1727 Pali HighwayHonolulu, HI 96813Website: hawaiibetsuin.org Description of Organization: Honpa Hongwanji Hawai`i Betsuin is the oldest and largest Buddhist temple in Hawaii. The mission of Honpa Hongwanji Hawai`i is to enrich people with a life of gratitude, harmony, and peace. Hawaii Betsuin shares Buddhist teachings by: • Offering Amida…
Drala Mountain Center
Drala Mountain Center 151 Shambhala WayRed Feather Lakes, CO 80545 Website: dralamountain.org Description of Organization: Founded in 1971, Drala Mountain Center (DMC) is an inclusive, secular, and non-sectarian educational nonprofit. DMC brings people together to experience wisdom and welcomes all people with inspiration, interest, and curiosity about understanding the nature of self and society. DMC…
Mindful Living Revolution
Mindful Living Revolution PO Box 1132Black Mountain, NC 28711Website: deborahedentull.com/mission Description of Organization: Mindful Living Revolution (MLR) was founded in 2008 by Deborah Eden Tull, as she transitioned from 7.5 years of Zen Buddhist monasticism in a silent monastery to living and teaching as a lay person in Los Angeles. When MLR first began, Eden…
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies 149 Lockwood RoadBarre, MA 01005Website: buddhistinquiry.org Description of Organization: The Barre Center for Buddhist Studies was founded by Sharon Saltzberg and Joseph Goldstein. For more than 30 years it has offered programs that integrate the study and practice of Buddhism with teachers from multiple Buddhist traditions. Residential and online courses…
Diahonzan Chozen-Ji International Zen Dojo
Diahonzan Chozen-Ji International Zen Dojo 3565 Kalihi StreetHonolulu, HI 96819Website: https://www.chozen-ji.org/ Description of Organization: Chozen-ji was founded in 1972 by Omori Sogen and Tenshin Tanouye, both Zen masters, swordsmen, and calligraphers. Omori Sogen is a direct Dharma Successor in the Tenryu-ji Line of Rinzai Zen and a successor of Yamaoka Tesshu’s Taishi School of…
Zen Peacemakers Inc. AKA Zen Peacemakers International
Zen Peacemakers Inc. AKA Zen Peacemakers International 1732 1st Ave. Box #20162New York, NY 10128Website: zenpeacemakers.org Description of Organization The founder and Spiritual Director of Zen Peacemakers, Roshi Bernie Glassman, was internationally recognized as a pioneer of the Zen Buddhist movement in America and was one of the founders of socially engaged Buddhism and social…
Veterans Yoga Project
Veterans Yoga Project PO Box 6472Alameda, CA 94501Website: veteransyogaproject.org Description of Organization Veterans Yoga Project (VYP) was established in 2011 as an educational and advocacy organization with a mission to support recovery and resilience among veterans, families, and communities. 1t was founded by clinical psychologist and yoga instructor Dr. Daniel J. Libby with a…
Upaya Zen Center
Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo RoadSanta Fe, NM 87501Website: upaya.org Description of Organization Upaya Zen Center is a residential Buddhist community located in Santa Fe, NM. As a Zen center, they offer daily meditation which is open to the public, a weekly public Dharma talk which often highlights Buddhist teachings, a residential Path of…
University of the West
University of the West 1409 Walnut Grove AveRosemead, CA 91770Website: uwest.edu Description of Organization University of the West is a Buddhist-founded, accredited, private, non-profit university located in Rosemead, CA, currently serving between 300-400 students seeking certificates, bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees in the following programs: Buddhist Chaplaincy, Business, English (including English-as-a-Second-Language), General Studies, Psychology, and…
Treasury of Lives
Treasury of Lives 17 West 17th Street, 9th FloorNew York, NY 10011website: treasuryoflives.org Description of Organization The Treasury of Lives is an online encyclopedia of historical knowledge of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalayan Region. The core of the site is comprised of biographies of Buddhist masters from the 7th through 20th centuries. The digital-only…
Tara Mandala
Tara Mandala 4000 USFS Rd. #649Pagosa Springs, CO 81147Website: taramandala.org Description of Organization Tara Mandala is an international Buddhist Community centered at Tara Mandala Retreat Center in the mountains of Pagosa Springs, Colorado. The organization is guided by Lama Tsultrim Allione and her Tibetan teachers to foster the development of innate wisdom for the benefit…
Sweetwater Zen Center
Sweetwater Zen Center 2727 Highland AvenueNational City, CA 91950Website: swzc.org Description of Organization Sweetwater Zen Center (SWZC) is a Zen Buddhist meditation practice community working together to realize the awakened way. As an urban Zen Buddhist Practice community, the purpose of SWZC is to end suffering. Sweetwater Zen Center offers a traditional Zen Buddhist schedule…
Sati Center for Buddhist Studies
Sati Center for Buddhist Studies 108 Birch St.Redwood City, CA 94062Website: sati.org Description of Organization The Sati Center for Buddhist Studies was incorporated in January of 1998 as a Buddhist study and training center. The Sati Center offers two primary areas of study: to help participants explore original Buddhist texts and appreciate the richness…
San Francisco Zen Center
San Francisco Zen Center 300 Page StreetSan Francisco, CA 94102website: sfzc.org Description of Organization San Francisco Zen Center is a nonprofit religious organization that was established in 1962 for the practice of Zen Buddhist meditation and teachings. Today, San Francisco Zen Center is the largest Buddhist community outside of Asia. It offers many, varied programs…
Rubin Museum
Rubin Museum 150 west 17th StreetNew York, NY 10011Website: rubinmuseum.org Description of Organization After numerous years of building a large collection of Himalayan and Tibetan art, collectors Shelley and Donald Rubin saw the urgency of helping preserve the artworks and sharing them with the world. In 1995, realizing that they had gradually come into significant…
Pacific Zen Institute
Pacific Zen Institute 825 Sonoma Ave., Ste BSanta Rosa, CA 95404P.O. Box 2972Santa Rosa, CA 95405Website: pacificzen.org Description of Organization The Pacific Zen Institute was first founded as the California Diamond Sangha in 1987 by John Tarrant Roshi in his home in Santa Rosa. The organization’s mandate was to address broader artistic and educational programs,…
Mission Be
Mission Be 240 Monroe Dr. #307Mountain View, CA 94040Website: missionbe.org Description of Organization In 2013 Mission Be piloted a mindfulness project at Islip High School in Long Island, NY. After receiving feedback, Mission Be began working with elementary school students and recruited seven volunteers, women with Master’s degrees in social work, psychology and education, and…
Loyola Marymount University
Loyola Marymount University University Hall1 LMU Drive, Suite 2800Los Angeles, CA 90045Telephone: 310-258-8700Website: bellarmine.lmu.edu/yoga/ Description of Organization Loyola Marymount University (LMU) understands and declares its mission to be: the encouragement of learning, the education of the whole person, the service of faith and the promotion of justice. The University offers 38 master’s degrees, one education…
Long Beach Meditation
Long Beach Meditation 5100 E. The ToledoLong Beach, CA 90803Website: longbeachmeditation.org Description of Organization Long Beach Meditation’s mission is to provide a safe, nurturing place to learn and practice the healing art of meditation while emphasizing the profound teachings and practices that align with Buddha’s path to awakening. Long Beach Meditation is committed to transforming…
Lion’s Roar Foundation
Lion’s Roar Foundation 1790 30th Street, Suite 300Boulder, COWebsite: lionsroar.com Description of Organization Lion’s Roar, the leading Buddhist media organization in North America, was founded in 1976 as the Vajradhatu Sun, the newspaper of the community founded by the late Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Today, it is a fully independent non-profit whose mission is to offer…
Lineage Project, The
The Lineage Project 228 Park Ave SPMB 98952New York, NY 10002Telephone 646-479-3996Website: lineageproject.org Description of Organization The Lineage Project is designed to support at-risk and incarcerated youth, their families and communities, by offering yoga, meditation and other awareness-based practices. Those who staff The Lineage Project stress the importance of working with at-risk populations and the…
Healing Well, The
The Healing Well 476 Eddy St.San Francisco, CA 94109Website: healingwellsf.org Description of Organization The Healing WELL, provides a “calm in the storm” to homeless and marginally-housed people in one of the poorest neighborhoods in San Francisco, the Tenderloin. They offer daily programs helping their participants develop inner-awareness, coping skills, and greater social connection so they…
Garrison Institute, The
The Garrison Institute PO Box 532Garrison, NY 10524Website: garrisoninstitute.org Description of Organization The Garrison Institute, located in Garrison, New York, is a not-for-profit, non-sectarian organization committed to harnessing the power of contemplative wisdom and practices from many traditions. Since its founding in 2003, The Garrison Institute has also developed rigorous, evidence-based programs that apply…
Friends of Zen
Friends of Zen 2989 W. Spencer StAppleton, WI 54914Website: hollowboneszen.orgAttn: Jun Po Denis Kelly, Rev. Dai En Hi Fu George Burch Description of Organization Founded in 1980 to provide a method to support the training of American Rinzai priests, Friends of Zen Inc. became Hollow Bones Zen in 2000, when Abbot Jun Po Denis…
Dharma Gates
Dharma Gates 318 West 108th Street Apt. 3New York, NY 10025website: dharma-gates.org Description of Organization Dharma Gates: A Semester of Contemplative Training is a gap year program offering students authentic Zen training. The programming introduces people with an interest in meditation or Buddhist practice to retreat environments while contextualizing these experiences in a way that…
Dharma Bum Temple
Dharma Bum Temple 4144 Campus AveSan Diego, CA 92103Website: thedharmabums.org Description of Organization Dharma Bum Temple opened its doors on December 31, 2006 at 541 2nd Avenue in the Old Chinatown section of Downtown San Diego, California. Throughout 2007 DBT hosted many Dharma teachers, all with their own style and presentation of Buddhism. The goal…
Brooklyn Zen Center
Brooklyn Zen Center 505 Carroll Street, Suite 2ABrooklyn, NY 11215Telephone: (718) 701-1083Website: brooklynzen.org Description of Organization The mission of the Brooklyn Zen Center (BZC) is to maintain a space for sitting meditation, for formal Soto Zen Buddhist practice, and for the study of Buddhist ethics and philosophy. The vision is to embody the wisdom, compassion,…
BE Meditation Group
BE Meditation Group 340 S. Lemon Ave. #2644Walnut, CA 91789Website: benonprofit.org Description of Organization BE Meditation Group began in June of 2016 with a single purpose; to promote and support organizations bringing meditation into the mainstream. In conjunction with their partner, Black Zen, a movement initiated to improve the health and well-being of minorities, BE…
Prison Mindfulness Institute
Prison Mindfulness Institute AKA Prison Dharma Network 595 B River RoadDeerfield, MA 01342Website: prisonmindfulness.org Description of Organization The Prison Dharma Network (Prison Mindfulness Institute) was founded in 1989 by Acharya Fleet Maull, a Buddhist then serving a 14.5 year mandatory minimum sentence in federal prison for drug trafficking. Through Buddhist meditation practices and spiritual teachings…