Center For Buddhist Studies
Northwest Spiritual place that will provide food and shelter in exchange for work and study?
Is there any temple or spiritual learning center (Buddhist, Shamanic, anything) that will allow you to stay there and perhaps do work around the temple while you learn? One without a monetary tuition I mean. In Washington State, Oregon, maybe California?
A convent or a monastery will sometimes accept a guest who will work in exchange for room and board.
Tai and Taitetsu at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies
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Knowing Body, Moving Mind: Ritualizing and Learning at Two Buddhist Centers (Oxford Ritual Studies) $19.98 Knowing Body, Moving Mind investigates ritualizing and learning in introductory meditation classes at two Buddhist centers in Toronto, Canada. The centers, Friends of the Heart and Chandrakirti, are led and attended by Western (sometimes called “convert’) Buddhists: that is, people from non-Buddhist familial and cultural backgrounds. Inspired by theories that suggest that rituals impart new knowle… |
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