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The Barre Center for Buddhist Studies (BCBS) was founded in 1990 by Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was founded as a complement to the nearby Insight Meditation Society retreat center, and operates as an independent educational nonprofit organization .
These workshops are sponsored by diverse organizations, such as Boston College's Graduate Schools of Social Work and of Theology and Ministry, the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, Contemplative Mind in Society, the Institute of Meditation and Psychotherapy, and the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.
In 1990, a closely related but independent educational center, the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, was founded by Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg on land adjoining IMS. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] From 1996-2006, IMS offered a correspondence course developed by its founders Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg entitled Insight Meditation which ...
Bhikkhu Anālayo is a bhikkhu (Buddhist monk), scholar, and meditation teacher. He was born in Germany in 1962, and went forth in 1995 in the Theravādin monastic tradition of Sri Lanka. He is best known for his comparative studies of Early Buddhist Texts as preserved by the various early Buddhist traditions. [1]
In 1976 Kornfield and Goldstein, along with Sharon Salzberg and Jacqueline Schwartz founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. Kornfield later founded a sister center, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, in Marin County, California, and Goldstein and Salzberg founded the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies on land adjoining IMS. [34]
Anālayo (2017), Early Buddhist Meditation Studies. Barre, MA: Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. ISBN 978-1540410504. Bodhi, Bhikkhu (trans.) (2000). The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya. Boston: Wisdom Pubs. ISBN 0-86171-331-1. Bodhi, Bhikkhu (Fall 2002).
The sermons are currently being studied in a three-year e-learning program (2017–2018) offered by Bhikkhu Anālayo of the Numata Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Hamburg in cooperation with the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.
Shaila Catherine is an American Buddhist meditation teacher and author in the Theravādin tradition, known for her expertise in insight meditation (vipassanā) and jhāna practices. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She has authored three books on jhāna practice and has introduced many American practitioners to this concentration practice through her writings and ...