Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
The Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC is vipassana meditation group approximately in the tradition of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massacheusetts, USA. Tara Brach is the founding and guiding Dhamma teacher. Over 100 meditators attend the weekly sitting / class. Meditation retreats of one, three, or seven days are held regularly in the Washington, DC area.
http://www.imcw.org/index.php
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Vipassana Research Institute
A Resource Center for students of Vipassana Meditation. This web site has been created with the purpose of providing reference material and information on the core teachings of The Buddha and specifically on the Vipassana Meditation Technique as taught in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin under the guidance of his chief disciple, S. N. Goenka. The objective is to provide an insight into the practical aspect of The Buddha's teaching.
http://www.vri.dhamma.org/
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Insight Meditation (Christopher Titmuss)
Dharma teachings and insight meditation practices, known as Vipassana in the Buddhist Tradition, have a single purpose. They point to an enlightened life. To explore these teachings, participation in an insight meditation retreat is strongly recommended or direct instruction from an insight meditation teacher. May the teachings, meditations, reflections and information contained prove beneficial to all visitors. These teachings are not intended to represent any religious tradition or retreat centre.
http://www.insightmeditation.org/index.htm
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The BUDSIR Project
The entire Pali Tipitaka as well as other Buddhist texts have been put on CD-ROM by the Mahidol University in Thailand and its the BUDSIR project.
http://www.mahidol.ac.th/budsir/budsir-main.html
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Aukana Trust
Located in Wiltshire, UK, the Aukana Trust runs a meditation centre (the House of Inner Tranquillity) and two monasteries. They also publish several books on Buddhism.
http://www.aukana.org.uk/
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Amaravati Buddhist Monastery
Amaravati is a monastery in the Theravada tradition of Buddhism and a centre of teaching and practice. Its heart is a resident community of monks and nuns, whose life of meditation and work is open for visitors to share, as a living example of the Buddhist path.
http://www.amaravati.org/
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Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery
A Buddhist community in the tradition of Ajahn Chah, Ajahn Sumedho and Amaravati Buddhist Monastery. Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro are co-abbots of the Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery, north of San Francisco, in Redwood Valley (Mendocino County), California. Abhayagiri is a monastery in the Theravadin forest tradition.
http://www.abhayagiri.org/
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Bodhinyanarama Net
Bodhinyanarama is a monastic residence of the Theravada tradition of Buddhism 29 kms from Wellington, New Zealand. It has its origins in the Thai Forest Tradition and is associated with the many branch monasteries of the highly revered and respected meditation master Ajahn Chah. This Web Site contains information on what is going on at Bodhinyanarama.
http://www.bodhinyanarama.net.nz/
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The Bhavana Society
The Bhavana Society Web is the site for information about our Forest Monastery and Retreat Center. You'll also find Dhamma articles by our teacher Bhante Rahula and our abbot, Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, author of Mindfulness in Plain English and The Path of Serenity and Insight. BSW will be growing to include a wide variety of Buddha Dhamma from the Theravada Perspective.
http://www.bhavanasociety.org/
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The Samatha Trust
The Samatha Trust was founded in 1973. Its principal aim is to keep alive the Buddha's teaching through providing opportunities for people to learn and practise Samatha, a traditional form of Buddhist meditation based of mindfulness of breathing. In actual fact, the form of meditation practiced is Samatha-Vipassana, developing Samatha (calm), as a basis for Vipassana (insight). This site provides information about local Samatha mediation groups throughout the United Kingdom, and also events run by the Trust.
http://www.samatha.org/
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