Our first European retreat was be held at the Lama Tsong Kapa Institute, the largest Tibetan Buddhist Center in Europe, Sept. 21-29, 2013, thanks to the sponsorship of Dr. Andrea Serafino. Yogis from 11 different countries attended the retreat. Here is a hotlink to a 2-minute video summary of the retreat. http://youtu.be/NREuDy3vT-U We are considering offering future retreats in Italy. If you are interested in our future European events, please...

We were delighted to be invited to the International Vipassana Teachers Conference in June 2013, along with about 90 other Buddhist Teachers from around the world.  We appreciated being with such a dedicated group of teachers and practitioners. Much of the agenda focused on issues of engaged Buddhism, such as diversity and inclusion, and climate change.

Stephen was recently interviewed by Nonduality Magazine, an online magazine featuring interviews with teachers from a wide variety of traditions. Read the interviews at the hotlinks...

Our first website served us well for 4 years, and amazingly was visited 50,639 times by people from 40 countries, with 30,779 unique site visitors . In October 2012 we launched this new website. We hope you find it easy to use and beautiful. We are so grateful that the internet has allowed us to connect with all of you, no matter where you are. Welcome to all!

This seminal book is now available at cost for purchase on Amazon.com, thanks to two yogis in our sangha–Ted Weinstein and Michael Nagy. The book is beautiful, and is so much easier to read and use than the download version. It sells for cost at $15.99, with any small proceeds donated to Pa Auk Monastery. Click here to order: http://amzn.to/knowingseeing or for a description visit our Books page. Knowing & Seeing (4th Edition)...