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Welcome…
Learn practical skills for a calmer, happier life.
Atisha Kadampa Buddhist Center is located in the Fox Point neighborhood of Providence. We offer meditation and modern Buddhism for all levels of experience.
You’ll feel welcome at any weekly class, retreat, or special event. We’re here as a place of refuge and to support you on your path.
Meditation. No experience needed. Everybody Welcome.
Featured Classes
Whether you’re new to meditation or looking to improve your practice, our weekly meditation classes are suitable for all levels of experience. Join us for teaching, guided meditation, discussion, and Q&A.
Featured Events
Celebrate Mother’s Day
at Atisha KBC
Sunday Morning Meditation
May 11th, 2025 | 11AM – 12:15PM
Powerful Purification Fasting Practice
May 15th, 2025 | 630PM – 7:30PM
The essence of the practice is to take eight precepts and to keep them purely for a period of twenty-four hours. By doing this practice again and again, we acquaint ourself with the practice of moral discipline and thereby make our human life meaningful. We receive many great benefits from practicing moral discipline in this way. It helps us to solve the problems of this life by avoiding the causes of suffering; and it creates the cause for us to take fortunate rebirths in future lives and thereby protects us from the sufferings of lower rebirth. In particular, because it is performed with bodhichitta motivation, this practice is very powerful for purifying negative karma. It accumulates a vast collection of merit and creates the cause for us to attain the unsurpassed happiness of enlightenment.
Cost: FREE
Special Prayers for World Peace
Friday, May 23rd | 7PM – 8:30PM
This class includes guided meditations, a teaching, and chanted prayers for world peace.
We can all do something to contribute to world peace! In this class, we are creating world peace in two main ways. We are making prayers together for world peace, and we are also creating inner peace. Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible. When we create peace within our own mind, it ripples out to create peace in our world.
We will explore how building peace within our mind we can better help others during difficult times. When we experience difficulties we are more equipped to transform the difficulty into a meaningful experience, so that despite the pain we experience it becomes a source of spiritual growth.
Suggested Donation $5.
Sat, May 24th | Check-in 10:30am, Session 11 – 1pm
International Spring Festival Watch Party
If you’re attending the International Spring Festival online–or are considering registering–join us for our Watch Party. Get more out of the Festival by attending the Empowerment of Buddha Maitreya Empowerment online at Atisha KBC. Receiving the Empowerment with a group is very powerful. The other teachings and retreat sessions you can do at home according to your own schedule, needs and circumstances. To attend the Watch Party, register for the Spring Festival online and then bring your proof of registration with you to Watch Party at Atisha KBC.
Thursday, September 11th
A LIFE BEYOND FEAR
A REGIONAL EVENT IN NEW YORK CITY
In times as stressful and uncertain as the ones we seem to be experiencing more and more often, we may ask, is a life beyond fear even possible?
In truth, fear arises from our mind, not from our environment. The fear and the anxiety that so many experience is not inevitable. If we come to recognize their underlying sources, we can learn to change our relationship to them.
Through the practice of meditation, we can learn to work skillfully with our fear. Instead of allowing it to overwhelm us, we learn to redirect it, so that it moves us towards developing those states of mind that naturally give rise to peace, confidence and a strong sense of purpose.
LOCATION: THE TOWN HALL
123 W 43rd St, New York, NY 10036