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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
The overlook at High Ledges offers a sweeping view of Shelburne Falls and the Berkshire Mountains and is a popular spot for tourists and hikers. Massachusetts Audubon has acquired additional abutting properties over the years and the sanctuary now consists of 746 acres (302 ha).
Shelburne Falls is a historic village in the towns of Shelburne and Buckland in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The village is a census-designated place (CDP) with a population of 1,731 at the 2010 census. [3] It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The Insight Meditation Society (IMS) is a non-profit organization for study of Buddhism located in Barre, Massachusetts. [1] It was founded in 1975 by Sharon Salzberg , Jack Kornfield , Joseph Goldstein and Jacqueline Schwartz, and is rooted in the Theravada tradition.
Shelburne lies along Massachusetts Route 2, commonly known as the Mohawk Trail, which is the main east-west route through the northern part of Massachusetts. The short, westernmost section of Route 2A connects the highway with the heart of Shelburne Falls, passing into Buckland before finally ending there.
John Earl Coleman (26 March 1930 – 22 November 2012) was a teacher of Vipassanā (insight) meditation, a form of meditation in Theravada Buddhism.He was born in Tresckow, a mining town in Pennsylvania.
Within the first decade of its establishment there were many prominent individuals who took meditation courses at the IMC, including Sao Shwe Thaik (the first president of the Union of Burma), [note 4] U Lun Baw (Deputy Prime Minister of Burma), U San Nyun (Minister for Marine & Transport of Burma), [note 5] U Bo Byi (Supreme Court Judge of ...
Jack Kornfield (born 1945) is an American writer and teacher in the Vipassana movement in American Theravada Buddhism. [1] He trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma and India, [2] first as a student of the Thai forest master Ajahn Chah and Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma.