Bodhiheart Sangha

Specialties

Taught by Ven. Dhammadinna and Tenzin Jesse, these classes offer an experience of the meditations and insights of the Dharma. Classes include practice in the Burmese Vipassana tradition as well as teachings in the Tibetan tradition.

We will deepen our ability to work with painful emotions and moods, enhancing optimism, patience and even-​mindedness in the face of habitual tendencies toward frustration and dissatisfaction.

Dharma practice enables us to bring all our experiences, both pleasant and unpleasant, into the path of compassion and provides a tool box of practical antidotes for dysfunctional thoughts and feelings. Meditation brings clarity and awareness to our mental states, body and feelings, enhancing control over our experiences and offering us a stable and peaceful happiness that radiates outward to benefit all those with whom we come in contact.

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History

Established in 2006.

In May of 2006, Ven. Dhammadinna and Tenzin Jesse returned from India after sustained requests from a number of Seattle students who hoped for weekly Dharma teachings from a resident teacher. In response to their requests, these two Western teachers ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama founded a Dharma community including both the vipassana and non-​sectarian Tibetan traditions. They now make their home in Seattle and offer year-​round teachings there as well as occassional teachings elsewhere in North America.

Meet the Manager

Dhammadinna D.

Manager

Ven. Dhammadinna took robes in 1983 in the Theravadin tradition after earning a science degree at U. Mass. She then moved to Burma with her teacher and remained in Asia for 21 years, studying with U Pandita Sayadaw and Ajahn Buddhadasa, among others, walking daily alms rounds, living a simple, monastic life and meditating in the forests and temples of Burma and Thailand.

Over the past two decades, Ven. Dhammadinna has taught Buddhism and led meditation retreats at Suan Mokkh in South Thailand as well as in England, India and the US. In 2000 she was sent by her Burmese master to Dharmsala to study with His Holiness the Dalai Lama privately. In 2003 Ven. Dhammadinna took ordination in the Tibetan tradition with His Holiness and, at His request, received bhikshuni ordination in Taiwan.