Welcome to 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.
Katog Choling Gön 2024
Nyingtik Yabzhi Registration
Rare empowerments (wang) and reading transmissions (lung) of the dzogchen
Nyingtik Yabzhi
November 8 – 12, 2024
Nyingtik Tsapod
November 14 -17, 2024
Katog Choling Gön (Katog Rit’hröd)
Retreat Center
in Parthenon, Arkansas
It is Khentrul Rinpoche’s aspiration that all students who are suitable recipients and who have the spiritual good fortune and capacity make their best effort to attend these rare, once in a lifetime transmissions.
Registration is now open!
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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.