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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
Purification Without Guilt
April 11th, 2025 | 7 – 8:15PM
Buddha taught that all our past virtuous actions lead to happiness and all our past negative actions lead to suffering. Through engaging in purification we have the opportunity to overcome our negative actions (or karma) by sincerely applying the four opponent powers. In this Lecture, we will learn about these powers and how to use them to transform our daily activities into purification practice. As we purify our mind of negativity we naturally become happier and experience better conditions.
On Tuesday April 15th, to celebrate Buddha’s Enlightenment Day, we engage in the practice of 1,000-armed Avalokiteshvara, called Drop of Essential Nectar. It is a sublime meditation on love and compassion, and a deeply effective prayer for world peace. This practice is very beneficial for purifying negative karma and for pacifying delusions. This Friday Night Lecture is a great way to prepare for this event.
Drop of Essential Nectar Retreat
April 15th, 2025 | 630am**, 7:15am, 10am & 5pm
Detox Your Mind: A Buddhist Fasting & Purifying Retreat Nyungnay
This annual fasting and purification retreat performed on or near Buddha’s Enlightenment Day is a powerful way to purify negative karma of body, speech, and mind, and to pacify strong delusions such as hatred and attachment. It is also a special method for receiving blessings and improving our experience of love, compassion, and bodhichitta. In this retreat we rely on the Buddha of Compassion and a special chanted prayer practice.
In this retreat, we do a partial fast (eating only lunch, no breakfast, no dinner, liquids including coffee and tea are OK).
**To participate in this retreat, you must come to the 6:30AM session to receive Mahayana Precepts, or if you have received them before, take them at 6:30AM at home.
Cost: Free
Free Meditation Class at Knight Memorial Library – Auditorium Room
Thursday, April 17th | 6PM – 7PM
LOCATION: 275 Elmwood Avenue
Providence, RI 02907 United States
We encourage you to join us in learning the benefits of giving your mind some space. When you take time away from the distractions of daily life, you can explore the potential of your mind. Through this you’re able to cultivate mindfulness, compassion, and wisdom, nurturing a profound sense of inner peace. By engaging in meditation, you purify your mind, reduce stress, and develop a deeper connection with your true nature. As Venerable Geshe-la says in How to Transform Your Life:
“So much of the stress and tension we normally experience comes from our mind, and many of the problems we experience, including ill health, are caused or aggravated by this stress. Just by doing breathing meditation for ten or fifteen minutes each day, we will be able to reduce this stress. We will experience a calm, spacious feeling in the mind, and many of our usual problems will fall away.
This is a FREE event. Minimum of 4 pre-registered required for the event to happen – so please register by emailing astevens@clpvd.org
Saturday, April 19th | 11AM – 12:30PM
All About Meditation: Start or Strengthen Your Meditation Practice
With Resident Teacher Anika Trancik
This class is designed to help you improve your daily meditation practice, or start a practice. Meditation is the main tool that Buddhists use to make lasting positive changes in our minds and lives. Learn to meditate in an authentic way that has been used for centuries to reduce mental and physical suffering and increase the power of the mind, resulting in greater peace and happiness.
Receive guidance on how to customize your practice to achieve your goals and conquer your obstacles. This class includes time for discussion and Q&A.
Saturday, April 19th | 3:30PM – 5PM
How to Build a Daily Practice: Heart Jewel Workshop in Worcester
LOCATION: Worcester Friends Meeting House
901 Pleasant Street, Worcester, MA 01602
The essential practice of Kadampa Buddhism is a daily practice of Heart Jewel Prayers with Lamrim meditation. This is the defining characteristic of a Kadampa Buddhist.
Heart Jewel is a chanted meditation that is a method for receiving attainments through the practice of the Guru Yoga of Je Tsongkhapa. It also contains prayers to our Dharma Protector, the wisdom Buddha Dorje Shugden, who protects our tradition and removes obstacles from our own spiritual practice. In this Saturday workshop, we will learn how to use these chanted prayers as a guided meditation that connects us with our Spiritual Guide and deepens our understanding of the Lamrim (stages of the path) meditations.
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