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                            BHAVANA SOCIETY

                            Rt. 1 Box 218-3
                          High View, WV 26808
                         Voice: (304) 856-3241
                          Fax: (304) 856-2111

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                         1995 Retreat Schedule
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  Nov 3-12      10-day retreat
  Dec 15-31     Year-end two-week retreat
       
       
    You may come for the first weekend of any ten-day or two-week 
  retreat. Priority is, however, given to those who stay for the full 
  length of the retreat--ask for details.
    
    As more and more people are attending our retreats, we need at 
  least one week advance notice to make arrangement for food and 
  lodging.
  
  
  About the Bhavana Society
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    The Bhavana Society is a monastery and meditation retreat center 
  located on 25 acres of secluded forest near High View, West Virginia. 
  The center offers Society members and friends rare and valuable 
  opportunites to practice Vipassana Buddhist meditation in an ideal 
  setting, in keeping with the original "forest" tradition.

    The Bhavana Society's retreat center offers one-day, weekend,
  ten-day and extended sessions of meditation practice and teaching in a 
  serene forest setting just 2 hours from Washington, DC. By prior 
  arrangement, experienced meditators can undertake practice for several 
  months in a fully-supported environment. The center has several 
  dormitory rooms, a meditation hall, well-stocked library, and several 
  "kutis", or simple cabins, for intensive long-term practice.

    The Center is staffed by resident Sri Lankan and American monks,
  and by full-time support personnel. The founder and president of the 
  Society is Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, a Sri Lankan who has has been a 
  monk since the age of 12, and who came to the United States in 1968. 
  He is an internationally recognized author and meditation teacher. His 
  recent book on meditation, "Mindfulness in Plain English" is now in 
  its second printing.
    
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 Updated:       16 Oct 95
 Expires:       31 Dec 95
 Sources used:  Bhavana Society Newsletter

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