Entries with Names starting with 'V'

Taos
NM
http://www.vallecitos.org/

The Vallecitos Mountain Refuge is a wilderness ranch and contemplative retreat center seeking to strengthen and support progressive leaders and advocacy organizations working for social change and the protection of the environment in our society.

Lebanon
NH
http://valleyinsight.org

Valley Insight Meditation Society was created by a group of people who practice and study in the Theravada Buddhist tradition. Our Mission, and the essence of our work, is liberation for all beings.

Our purpose is to provide opportunities for the practice, study, and teaching of Theravada Buddhism in the Insight (Vipassana) Meditation tradition.

Phnom Penh
http://dhammayutta.free.fr/

Khmer Dhammayutta Order temple.

Créteil
http://vattkhemararam.wordpress.com/

Khmer cultual association, called "Association Bouddhique Khmere - Vatt Khemararam", and based in France.
The Superior/founder of this association is His Holiness Sangharajah Bour Kry, actual Supreme Patriarch of Dhammayutta Order of Cambodia. He has created this association for the benefit of all buddhist believers, both Cambodian people and foreigners.

 

http://www.vipassana.com/meditation/dhammajiva/index.php

Venerable Uda Eriyagama Dhammajiva has practised as a meditation master for over a decade and is meditation teacher and Deputy Abbot of Meetirigala, a monastery in the strict forest tradition in Sri Lanka. He trained under Ven. Matara Sri Gnanarama Mahathera (Sri Lanka) and Sayadaw U. Panditabhivamsa (Burma).

http://pathpress.wordpress.com/bodhesako/

Samanera Bodhesako (Robert Smith, known also as Ven. Vinayadhara and Ven. Ñanasuci in his early monastic life) was an American Buddhist monk. During the last years of his life he founded the Path Press for which he edited Clearing the Path: Writings of Ñanavira Thera (Colombo, 1987). For the BPS he edited The Tragic, the comic and the Personal: Selected Letters of Ñanavira Thera (Wheel Publication series No. 33941, 1987.) In 2008 BPS published Beginnings: Collected Essays by S. Bodhesako. This book contains all the known published and unpublished essays by S. Bodhesako: Beginnings, Change, The Buddha and Catch-22, The Myth of Sisyphus, Faith, and Being and Craving.

http://seeingthroughthenet.net/introduction/

Venerable Kaṭukurunde Ñāṇananda, was born in 1940 to a family of Buddhist parents in Galle, Sri Lanka. He received his school education at Mahinda College, Galle, where he imbibed the true Buddhist values. In 1962 he graduated from the University of Peradeniya and served as an Assistant Lecturer in Pali at the same University for a brief period. He renounced his post in 1967 to enter the Order of Buddhist monks at Island Hermitage, Dodanduwa.

Already during the first phase of his life as a monk at Island Hermitage, Ven. Ñāṇananda had written four books which were published by the Buddhist Publication Society in Kandy under the titles.

  1. Concept and Reality in Early Buddhist Thought
  2. Saṁyutta Nikāya – An Anthology (Part II)
  3. Ideal Solitude
  4. The Magic of the Mind

Then in 1972 he left Island Hermitage for Meetirigala Nissarana Vanaya, where he came under the tutelage of the late Ven. Mātara Srī Ñāṇārāma Mahāthera, a veteran teacher of Insight Meditation.

The audio files of Nibbana sermons are available at:
http://audio.nibbanam.com/
http://www.sunlun-meditation.net

Biography and the Dhamma discourses given by Myingyan Sun Lun Gu Kyaung Sayadaw U Kavi: Sun Lun Way of Meditation.

(Note that this website is slow in loading).
See also:
http://www.sunlun.com
Stammbach
http://www.buddhareden.de/fr-katalog.htm

Der Verlag Beyerlein-Steinschulte ist auf die Lehren des Buddhismus spezialisiert;

insbesondere auf Schriften und Kommentare zum Pali-Kanon.

Brattleboro
Vermont
http://www.vermontinsight.org/

Vermont Insight Meditation Center is a community-based, non-residential center for the practice of Vipassana or Insight meditation, and for the study of Buddhist teachings and mindfulness practice in daily life. Vermont Insight offers a range of study programs and meditation practice opportunities. All are welcome to participate.

Victoria
BC
http://victoriaims.org/

Victoria Insight Meditation Society is dedicated to supporting the practice and study of Vipassana or Insight Meditation. Vipassana, or “clear seeing,” is the meditative practice of mindful attention. We seek to cultivate insight, generosity and kindness in order to awaken body, heart and mind and to foster the possibility of freedom from suffering for all.

http://www.dhammadownload.com/VideoInEnglish.htm

Video Dhamma talks by Venerable monks from Myanmar: U Nyanissara, Pa Auk Sayadaw, Monley Sayadaw, Dr. Nandamalabhivamsa, Sayadaw U Pandita, Dr. Mehm Tin Mon and others.

http://www.chuavietnam.com/

Vietnamese Buddhist portal, in English and Vietnamese. Offers a worldwide directory of temples, art gallery, message board, news and more.

http://www.vbgnet.org

Vihara Buddha Gotama is a 15-acres forest monastery founded in 1998 mainly for the study, teaching, and practice of the Buddha's discourses (suttas), monastic discipline (vinaya), and meditation, according to the original teachings of the Buddha.
It is open to monks and nuns (maechees or anagarinis), and also laymen and laywomen.

Bombay
http://www.vimutti.org.nz

Vimutti Monastery is a Buddhist community in the lineage of one of Thailands greatest meditation masters, Venerable Ajahn Chah. Created with the intention of generating peace and wisdom in the world, Vimutti is situated in the midst of 72 acres of native bush, pine forest, streams and rolling hills. The monastery offers seclusion and suitable conditions for those who wish to deepen their meditation, as well as the opportunity for people of all nationalities to join together in harmony and work towards a noble common goal.

 

Bramston Beach
Queensland
http://www.fourwindslao.com

Delivers short and longer term courses, and regular meditation and information sessions.

 

http://vipassana.buddhism.org/

Korean Readings in Mahasi Tradition of Vipassana Meditation. Korean Translation of "The Word of the Buddha" by Nyanatiloka Mahathera.

Jefferson City
Missouri
http://vipassanabuddhistchurch.org/

The mission of the Vipassana Buddhist Church / Center for Buddhist Development is to make the original teachings of the Buddha available throughout mid-Missouri.

Groningen
http://www.vipassana-groningen.nl/

Het Vipassana Meditatie Centrum probeert een ieder de mogelijkheid te geven om, eventueel onder begeleiding, vipassanameditatie te beoefenen. Het centrum organiseert avonden en ochtenden, weekends en korte retraites met gerichte meditatie-instructies; na afloop is er de mogelijkheid om verder in te gaan op individuele ervaring van de deelnemers. De meditatie-activiteiten vinden plaats in de grote meditatiezaal en worden begeleid door ervaren mediterenden.

Aurora
Colorado
https://metaperl.gitlab.io/vipassana-dhura/

Meditation society headed by Achan Sobin (Namto Bhikkhu Sopako Bodhi).

Offering a precise, moment-to-moment mindfulness technique in the Thai/Burmese tradition. Learn sitting/walking meditation, the "Sixteen Stages of Insight," mindful eating, and more.

 

See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/theravada/comments/5xgre3/update_of_vipassana_dhura_meditation_society_pages/