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Cleveland Sanghas

The Cleveland Shambhala Meditation Group is affiliated with a group of meditation centers founded by Tibetan Buddhist meditation master Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche. http://cleveland.shambhala.org/

The Cleveland Zazen Group, an affiliate of the Rochester Zen Center, has met for over 30 years in Cleveland Heights. http://www.clevelandzen.org/index.html

Mindful Moments offers classes, opportunities to practice mindfulness meditation, and retreats. Dr. Rubel also offers psychotherapy grounded in mindfulness practices. www.mindfulmomentsonline.com

CloudWater Zendo location is on Cleveland's west side. Activities include group meditation, Ch'an retreats and intensives, classes on Buddhism, and T'ai Chi and Chinese Internal Arts. http://www.cloudwater.org/Introduction.pdf

Jewel Heart’s purpose is to transmit the essence of Tibetan Buddhism in an authentic and accessible form. http://www.jewelheart.org/chapters/cleveland/newsletter.html

Cleveland branch of the The Buddhist Peace Fellowship founded in San Francisco in 1978. http://www.bpfcleveland.org/

Ohio Sanghas

Based in Cincinnati, Tri-State Dharma promotes the study and practice of Insight Meditation in the Buddhist Theravadin tradition in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana http://tristatedharma.org/index.htm

National Sanghas and retreat centers

Mid America Dharma is a non-profit organization dedicated to making the practice of vipassana or Insight Meditation available in the central region of the United States. http://www.geocities.com/~madg/

Insight Meditation Society has offered retreats in Massachusetts for over 30 years http://www.dharma.org/ims/index.php

Spirit Rock Meditation Center is dedicated to the teachings of the Buddha as presented in the vipassana tradition. It is located in California. http://www.spiritrock.org/

The Forest way is based in Virginia and was founded by Matthew Flickstein in 1993. http://www.forestway.org/

The Bhavana Society meditation center located in West Virginia was founded by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana and provides various organized and personal retreats http://www.bhavanasociety.org/

Dharma talks (downloads and streaming)

Dharmastream.org offers many talks from IMS teachers http://www.dharmastream.org/dharmatalks.html

Audiodharma.org offers many hours of talks from The Insight Meditation Center http://www.audiodharma.org/

Online sources for Buddhist information

BuddhaNet is a vision to link up the growing world-wide culture of people committed to the Buddha's teachings and lifestyle, as an on-line cyber sangha. http://www.buddhanet.net/

DharmaNet is an informational resource that is ecumenical and all-encompassing, one that addresses the needs of newcomers and experienced practitioners. http://www.dharmanet.org/index.htm

Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library is an Internet Guide to Buddhism and Buddhist Studies. http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Buddhism.html

Tricycle, The Buddhist review online. http://www.tricycle.com/

A Buddhist library is a Buddhist educational resource. Most of the material is from the main Buddhist Traditions - the Tibetan, Zen and Theravada. http://www.abuddhistlibrary.com/

Buddhism: The American Experience a free online book by Charles S. Prebish http://www.jbeonlinebooks.org/bae/contents.htm

A Theravada Library http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/

The mission of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship (BPF), founded in 1978, is to serve as a catalyst for socially engaged Buddhism. http://www.bpf.org/html/home.html

Books, Cushions and crafts

Operating for over 27 years, Dharma Crafts offers quality meditation supplies. http://www.dharmacrafts.com/

The Samadhi Store is a good internet source for quality meditation cushions and supplies.http://www.samadhicushions.com/