Saturday
27
Half-day Sit
with MRO Staff
Zen Mountain Monastery / Mt Tremper, NY, USA
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The Retreats Desk · June 23
What they built
Robert Thurman died last week in Woodstock. The retreat calendar he helped make possible fills with offerings that would have been unimaginable when he was ordained.
Robert Thurman died last Tuesday in Woodstock, New York. He was eighty-four. The first American ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist monk by the Dalai Lama, back in the 1960s, when Buddhism in the West was still mostly a literary curiosity, something you encountered through Kerouac or Alan Watts but didn't practice in any structured way. Thurman helped build the floor that American Buddhism now stands on: the first endowed chair in Buddhist studies at Columbia, Tibet House, translations of the Vimalakirti Sutra that made a 2,000-year-old text feel like it was written last week. "Buddhism requires clear thinking and critical scrutiny, not dogmatic adherence or blind faith," he told an interviewer once. "It is an educational tradition more than a religious one."
June
2026 05 retreatsSaturday
27
Half-day Sit (online)
Zen Mountain Monastery / Mt Tremper, NY, USA
Saturday
27
One Day Sit: Dhamma of Love and Justice, Practicing with B.R. Ambedkar as Engaged Buddhists Today
with Maitriveer Nagarjuna
Brooklyn Zen Center / Brooklyn, NY, USA
Tuesday – Sunday · 6 days
Jun 30 – Jul 05
Rooted in Awareness: Iyengar Yoga and Zen to Embody Your Life
San Francisco Zen Center / San Francisco, CA, USA
Tuesday – Sunday · 6 days
Jun 30 – Jul 05
Whole Heart, Boundless Heart: A Retreat on the Four Brahmaviharas
San Francisco Zen Center / San Francisco, CA, USA
July
2026 17 retreatsWednesday – Friday
01–03
Family Sangha Totoro Sleepover Retreat at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center
San Francisco Zen Center / San Francisco, CA, USA
Tuesday – Sunday · 41 days
Jul 07 – Aug 16
Summer Residency Program 2026
Great Vow Zen Monastery / Clatskanie, OR, USA
Friday – Sunday
10–12
Beginner's Mind Weekend Meditation Retreat
Great Vow Zen Monastery / Clatskanie, OR, USA
Friday – Sunday
10–12
Exploring Wisdom and Compassion: Further Steps Along the Path of Zen
with Danica Shoan Ankele, Gokan Bonebakker
Zen Mountain Monastery / Mt Tremper, NY, USA
Saturday
11
Boundless Field Zazenkai
Zen Mountain Monastery / Mt Tremper, NY, USA
Sunday
12
Day of Remembering Our Interdependence
Brooklyn Zen Center / Brooklyn, NY, USA
Thursday – Saturday
16–18
City Refuge Retreat
Great Vow Zen Monastery / Clatskanie, OR, USA
Thursday – Sunday · 4 days
16–19
Embodied Awakening of Silent Illumination
with Guo Gu
Zen Mountain Monastery / Mt Tremper, NY, USA
Saturday
18
Chado: The Way of Tea
Zen Mountain Monastery / Mt Tremper, NY, USA
Saturday
18
Zazenkai at Plum Blossom Zendo
Great Vow Zen Monastery / Clatskanie, OR, USA
Monday – Sunday · 7 days
20–26
Interdependence Sesshin
with Jody Hojin Kimmel, Danica Shoan Ankele
Zen Mountain Monastery / Mt Tremper, NY, USA
Monday – Sunday · 7 days
20–26
July Sesshin
Great Vow Zen Monastery / Clatskanie, OR, USA
Monday – Sunday · 7 days
20–26
One Continuous Thread: Home Practice Intensive
Zen Mountain Monastery / Mt Tremper, NY, USA
Monday – Sunday · 7 days
20–26
One Continuous Thread: Home Practice Intensive—July
with Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Jody Hojin Kimmel, Danica Shoan Ankele
Zen Center of New York City/Fire Lotus Temple / Brooklyn, NY, USA
Thursday – Saturday · 10 days
Jul 23 – Aug 01
Private Zen Retreat
Hokyoji Zen Practice Community / Eitzen, MN, USA