Welcome to Buddhark

buddhark

Buddhark [‘bü – dahrk] is an online resource serving Buddhist practitioners in the Northwest Arkansas region,

Ordinarily, there are a growing number of Buddhist meditation and study groups in this area. Many of these groups are not meeting in person due to the current pandemic, and not all of the information we have posted about them remains current. We will update the listings of information for these groups as the threat of the pandemic recedes. For now, please consult our Directory for links to the groups to check for information about their present activities and offerings, 

There are many regular and special events that take place throughout the year– now on zoom, but normally at Buddhist practitioners’ homes and at local retreat centers in this area. Information about them can be difficult to access. Buddhark aims to help fill this gap and make all of these groups and events easily accessible from a single location, thereby creating a stronger community of shared spiritual interests here in Northwest Arkansas. We invite you to share up-to-date information about your own Buddhist organization with us.


Weekend of Mindfulness Retreat

This weekend of mindfulness retreat will take place January 12-14 and will be hosted by Dogwood Blossom Sangha in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The retreat will begin Friday, January 12 with registration from 4-6pm, and will end Sunday, January 14 before 12pm.  The retreat will involve sitting and walking meditation practice, mindful eating (vegetarian), dharma talks from experienced teachers in the Plum Village tradition, and other opportunities to share and connect mindfully. 

There will be an opportunity to take any or all of the Five Mindfulness Trainings in a ceremony held by Terry Cortés-Vega. More information on the 5 Mindfulness Trainings can be found here: (https://plumvillage.org/mindfulness/the-5-mindfulness-trainings)

If you are interested in signing up, please follow this link to register:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdDbXYTqjoRBt9AKbphsXhpNwdgTg_-Lu43KdAIFAaZeuDEnw/viewform?usp=sf_link


Medicine Buddha Empowerment

This Tibetan Cultural Institute of Arkansas retreat will allow us the opportunity to further our knowledge and understanding, as well as, to provide us with guidance to bring the teachings into our personal practice.
 
Please join us for this wonderful day of study and community during the beautiful fall colors of the Ozark Mountains. We will meet from 9:30 am – 12 pm. Lunch will be a vegetarian potluck so that everyone can bring a favorite dish to share.
 
Donations are welcome, although everyone is invited to attend regardless of their ability to make a donation.

Bring a favorite cushion for sitting.

Location: The Land of Infinite Bliss Retreat Center

https://maps.apple.com/?ll=35.858629,-93.938357&q=Dropped%20Pin&t=h

From Hwy 16 turn right at the Pigtrail Cafe. Take 295 to Madison Co. Road 5520. 


The Bodhisattva’s Garland of Jewels
by Atisha Dipamkara Shrijñana

Khentrul Rinpoche has chosen to teach on these profound instructions for the 19th annual shedra. This text illuminates the path of how realized beings accomplish true and ultimately meaningful benefit for both themselves and others. It is a distillation of the direct experience of how such great masters of the past used their body, speech, and mind to tame their own mindstreams and achieve the means to benefit others. Each verse is like a priceless garland of jewels, which form an immense treasury of tools that are particularly relevant to the circumstances, times, thoughts, and actions of the world today.

Pandey Norbu Shedra 2023
with Khentrul Rinpoche

Webcast

November 4, 5
November 11, 12
November 18, 19

11:00am – 1:00pm and 3:00pm – 5:00pm Central Time each weekend

Full attendance required.

Details and Registration

Atisha Dipamkara Shrijñana or Jowo Jé Palden Atisha (982-1054) was a great Indian master and scholar. He spent the last ten years of his life in Tibet, teaching and translating texts, and was instrumental in reinvigorating Buddhism there after a period of persecution. Today he is recognized as one of the greatest figures of classical Buddhism.


recent teachings from Geshe-la

For access to recent teachings from Geshe-la and the Tibetan Cultural Institute of Arkansas, recordings are now available for Sunday, September 18th (access Passcode: n9nH2K#9), and Wednesday, September 21st (access Passcode: l2x#cS@F). Also, Sunday, Sept.25th (access Passcode: 4kEcw*EB)

This is a great opportunity to review the material, or hear the teachings if you’ve missed the live meeting.

For those interested in access to a selection of previous year’s Wednesday and Sunday teachings, you may find April – November 2020 recordings here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ckxxK6PSO7IhE5jD8tOvJtwPIJcvh5Zk?usp=sharing.


Dogwood Blossom Sangha

Nic Bellegarde teaches and facilitates mindfulness meditation classes and groups. He is originally from the Dallas Meditation Center, which practices mindfulness in the order of Thich Nhat Hanh, a world-renowned Vietnamese Zen Master. Nic is a member of the Order of Interbeing, a community of monks and laypersons who practice sitting and walking meditation, cultivating a community of harmony and present-moment awareness, practicing deep listening and loving speech. 

According to Plumvillage.org, “Mindfulness is a kind of energy that we generate when we bring our mind back to our body and get in touch with what is going on in the present moment, within us and around us. We can be mindful while standing, walking or lying down; while speaking, listening, working, playing and cooking.”

Meeting times: Every Tuesday evening in the Fayetteville Public Library @ 530pm. For schedule inquiries, see https://www.faylib.org/events
To contact Nic, email mindfulnwa@gmail.com
Dogwood Blossom Sangha Website


fresh from TCIA

We now have additional, weekly evening meditation classes with Ngawang. They will be offered on Mondays & Thursdays, from 7 to 8:00 pm and will take place on Zoom (using our Sunday link in this email, below). 

For those seeking access to a selection of prior Sunday and Wednesday teachings, you may find the April – November (2020) recordings here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ckxxK6PSO7IhE5jD8tOvJtwPIJcvh5Zk?usp=sharing.

If you wish to support our new teacher Ngawang, you may now send funds directly to him at Paypal (account under Ngawang Bhutia or he can send you a request), please contact Geshe la or Ngawang with any questions.


The Power of Mind

A personal message from Rinpoche:

In general, I do not do many celebrations. However, if there is something worth celebrating, it is definitely mind training.

Please join me on this special occasion as I share stories about my own history and experience in mind training as well as inspiring stories about how my own teachers and other great masters applied the mind training practices.