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Vipassana is being taught in Jail 4 of Tihar Prisons to inmates in two ten day courses every month around the year since 1994 onwards. This program was said to have dramatically changed the behavior of inmates and jailers alike. Inmates who completed the ten-day course were less violent and had a lower recidivism rate than
Kettering College (formerly Kettering College of Medical Arts) is a private Adventist college in Dayton, Ohio. The college is owned by the Kettering Medical Center and chartered by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The college was built in 1967 next to the Charles F. Kettering Memorial Hospital.
Kettering City School District is a school district located in Kettering, Ohio.It was named a "Top 100" school district by Money magazine in 1995. It is the second largest district in Montgomery County and currently [ when? ] serves about 8,000 student and has enjoyed modest growth in enrollment since the early 1990s.
The new University of Dayton China Institute in Suzhou began offering classes in summer 2013. [87] After setting records for first-year international enrollment the past few years, in 2012 approximately one in 10 students was from another country. [88] The University of Dayton's China Institute closed its doors in 2019. [89]
After graduating from UCLA as an Asian Language major, he enrolled in the University of Wisconsin's Ph.D. program in Buddhist Studies. To gather materials for his doctoral dissertation, he spent several years at the Shingon monastery at Mount Kōya in Japan, where he was ordained as a monk in 1970 and received the name Shinzen. [ 7 ]
Charles Kettering is known for his numerous inventions and contributions to Metro Dayton. [7] From the 1950s to the 1970s, Kettering's population continued to grow, adding more than 30,000 residents. This growth was due in part to the many people who started migrating out of nearby Dayton after World War II. Since the 1980s, Kettering has ...
Kettering Health Main Campus, formerly known as Kettering Medical Center (KMC), [1] non-profit hospital in Kettering, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1964, it is the flagship hospital of Kettering Health, and is directly affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. [2] It is also affiliated with the Boonshoft School of Medicine. [3]
Acharavadee Wongsakon is a Thai lay Buddhist teacher and former entrepreneur who teaches a form of Vipassana meditation called Techo Vipassana Meditation. She is the founder of the Knowing Buddha Organization, which campaigns against disrespectful uses of Buddha imagery and the general decline of morality in society.