Tibet House US aims to promote and preserve Tibetan culture by serving as both a cultural center in New York City and an online global resource for Tibetan civilization. The New York City center serves as a meeting place for the local Tibetan community to hold programs and events. The website includes a global directory […]

Anthony Stultz is the founder and director of the Blue Mountain Lotus Society in Harrisburg, Pa., a nonprofit organization devoted to sharing the universal teachings of the Buddha in the 21st century. He also oversees the Center for Mindfulness Counseling, integrating Eastern and Western counseling techniques.

Prison Dharma Network, founded by Fleet Maull in Providence, R.I., is a national nonprofit, nonsectarian support network for Buddhist prisoners, volunteers and prison staff. Its mission is to provide evidence-based tools for rehabilitation, self-transformation and personal and professional development, particularly through mindfulness-based interventions. Contact through the website.

Sung-bae Park is a professor of religious studies at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York, with an expertise in interfaith dialogue such as Buddhist-Christian dialogue and the Buddhist-Confucian debate in Korea. He is the founder and director of the Center for Korean Studies at Stony Brook.

Office of Tibet in New York is the official agency of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan administration-in-exile, based in Dharamsala, India. It was established in 1964 to raise the issue of Tibet at the United Nations. Its responsibilities now include supporting Tibetans living in the US and Canada, coordinating visits of the Dalai Lama […]

New York Insight is an urban center in New York City for the practice of Vipassana meditation. In reflection of the diversity of New York City, the center focuses on welcoming people of different ages, cultures, ethnicities, sexual orientations, gender identities and spiritual backgrounds.

Natural Dharma Fellowship is a nonprofit religious organization of Buddhist practitioners who follow the Tibetan traditions of Mahamudra and Dzogchen. Guided by Lama Willa Miller, the organization supports practice groups in the Northeastern United States and offers contemplative retreats at the Wonderwell Mountain Refuge retreat center in New Hampshire.

Mark Nathan is an assistant professor of history and Asian studies at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. He specializes in Korean Buddhism from the late 19th century to today, and also studies law and religion, transnational religious developments and religious propagation in Asia.

Morning Star Zendo, located in Jersey City, N.J., invites people of all faiths to practice Zazen, or sitting meditation. Robert Kennedy, a Jesuit priest and Zen teacher in the White Plum lineage, is the main teacher.