Path Programs
To provide opportunities for deep engagement in a collaborative and supportive environment, the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies offers multi-month Path Programs that integrate the study and practice of the dharma with a consistent cohort of practitioners. The intention is to create a space expansive enough for teachers and participants to engage in far-reaching explorations of classical and contemporary Buddhism — cultivating wisdom, deepening practice, and building a community grounded in Buddhadharma. See the links below for further information on the individual programs and how to apply or register for a Path. Please get in touch with us if you have any questions about these programs at contact@buddhistinquiry.org.
Upcoming Programs
A Year of Refuge: An Immersion in the Triple Gem
Chris Crotty
November 1, 2024 - August 13, 2025
Join us in exploring the Triple Gem — buddha, dharma, sangha — to cultivate insight that leads to our own wisdom becoming the ultimate sanctuary, sheltering us from suffering while empowering us with a greater capacity for skillful living. We will use our practice to study a wide range of Buddhist teachings to better understand their relevance to their own personal lives.
Application Closes on July 1
Applications Closed
Embodied Change-Making and Sacred Justice On Behalf of Life
Kaira Jewel Lingo, Deborah Eden Tull, and Konda Mason
March 24 - July 3, 2024
Join us in the inner work of cultivating greater equanimity and compassion while learning skills for relational intelligence, embodied listening, collaboration, resiliency, and conscious response so that our work for external change can be most effective. This program includes space for us to dream and vision how we might co-create a kinder, more equitable world.
Application Closed
Drawing on the Unconditional Love and Wisdom of Our Buddha Nature
John Makransky
May 24, 2024 - March 12, 2025
Join us in cultivating a buddha nature of awareness, warmth, love, compassion, and wisdom, from which to recognize others in their deep nature and hold them in warmth and compassion. Drawing from Tibetan Buddhism and modern psychology, we will generate an increasing power of compassion that can inform our lives and ways of being with others.
Application Closed
Embodied Truths: Breath, Body, and Intention in Buddhist Practice
Dhammadīpā
July 12, 2024 - May 29, 2025
Join us in exploring the various frameworks for practicing skillfully with breath and body — including the establishments of mindfulness, the aggregates, the sense fields, and movement. We will discover how these teachings were applied by practitioners in the past and how they extend to contemporary concerns and aspirations, such as eco dhamma, identity dhamma, and mindful dying.
Application Closed
The Wild Edge of Love: Buddhist Rituals of Reconnection to Nature
Lama Liz Monson
September 13, 2024 - August 31, 2025
Join us in exploring rituals of renewal and reconnection that have been practiced for hundreds of years in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. We will discover the joy and empowerment of creating rituals that honor our emotional being in its bereavement and fear while also celebrating the dance of life and nature constantly unfurling within us through art, writing, movement, and expression.
Application Closed