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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
What is Buddhist Empowerment?
March 7th, 2025 | 7 – 8:15PM
Blessing Empowerments are beautiful guided meditations that help us make a special connection with Buddhas and receive powerful blessings so that we can experience supreme inner peace. Through this we can awaken our spiritual potential – our own Buddha within – and make fast spiritual progress.
This Lecture will describe the features of a Buddhist Empowerment, why practitioners want to receive them and why Kadampa Budhists gather annually to receive empowerments, listen to teachings, contemplate and meditate.
Center Beautification Day
Saturday, March 15th | 1PM – 3PM
Spend the afternoon with us, where we all come together and help clean and maintain our beautiful Center. We will have cleaning and event preparation activities for people of all skills and abilities. Come for an hour, the whole time, or as long as you are free. Snacks will be provided. Everyone is welcome!
If you are unable to join us on this day, but would still like to help clean the Center, please contact outreach@meditationinrhodeisland.org to volunteer. There are many tasks that we need help with throughout the week or month; we are entirely volunteer-run, so we can always use your help!
March 29th | 10AM – 5:00PM
Find Inner Peace: The Empowerment of Buddha Shakyamuni
With Resident Teacher Anika Trancik
Every living being has the potential to become a Buddha, someone who has completely purified his or her mind of all faults and limitations and has brought all good qualities to perfection. Our mind is like a cloudy sky, in essence clear and pure but overcast by clouds. Just as the thickest couds eventually disperse, so too even the heaviest negativity can be removed from our mind.
Blessing empowerments are beautiful guided meditations that help us make a special connection with Buddha and receive his powerful blessings so that we can experience supreme inner peace. Through this we can awaken our spiritual potential- our own Buddha within- and make fast spiritual progress.
Everyone Welcome!
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