Path Programs
To provide opportunities for deep engagement in a collaborative and supportive environment, the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies has for many years offered multi-month and year-long programs that integrate study and practice of the dharma with a consistent cohort of practitioners. We are now expanding these offerings-- both online and in person-- in our new “Path Programs”. Our intention is to offer 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 community grounded in Buddhadharma.
In the spring of 2021, Bhikkhu Anālayo, resident scholar-monk at BCBS, began an exclusively online Path on “Early Buddhist Meditation.” Later in 2021, two more year-long Paths will start, with three residential retreats and smaller online group meetings in between. Sebene Selassie, with Pamela Weiss and Thanissara, will be leading a Path titled “Yin Dharma: Exploring the Feminine in Our Practice,” and Lama Liz Monson will be teaching “Writing Liberation: The Buddhist Practice of Spiritual Autobiography.” See the links below for further information and how to apply or register for each Path. Please contact us at contact@buddhistinquiry.org if you have any questions about these programs.
Sebene Selassie
With Pamela Weiss and Thanissara
October 22, 2021 - Oct 12, 2022
Applications Open: June 10, 2021
Applications Close: August 15, 2021
Sebene Selassie, with Pamela Weiss and Thanissara, will be leading a Path titled “Yin Dharma: Exploring the Feminine in Our Practice,” looking at the potential of devotion, mystery, feminine wisdom, and what Audre Lorde calls “the erotic” to transform individual Buddhist practice and also our communities. There will be three residential retreats and online gatherings and small group meetings in between.
Lama Liz Monson
November 05, 2021 - Oct 19, 2022
Applications Open: June 10, 2021
Applications Close: August 29, 2021
Lama Liz Monson will be teaching a Path, “Writing Liberation: The Buddhist Practice of Spiritual Autobiography,” in which participants will explore writing spiritual autobiographies as a liberative practice, metabolizing life events as transformative experiences along the Buddhist path. Between the weeklong retreats, participants will meet online twice a month to discuss assigned readings and writing exercises.
Bhikkhu Anālayo
April 09, 2021 - April 10, 2022
The Early Buddhist Meditation Path with Bhikkhu Anālayo consists of three online retreats over twelve months. It is an in-depth study of meditation as it emerges in the early Buddhist discourses, extant in Pāli and compared with their Āgama parallels in Chinese and other languages. These are the sources that bring us as close as possible to the teachings of the historical Buddha.
