Bozeman Dharma Center

Zen on Zoom
2026-07-05 08:00 - 09:15, 2026-07-12 08:00 - 09:15 (America/Denver) | Online Offering
Sunday Morning Zazen
with the Bozeman Zen Group
8:00 – 9:15 am
via Zoom
Our online time together includes meditation, chanting, and a book study. You do not need to own the book being studied to attend. We read aloud and discuss.
Anyone and everyone is welcome – newcomers and beginners are always welcome, just let us know if you are new and we’ll make introductions and offer instructions.
For more about the Bozeman Zen Group and our teacher, Karen DeCotis, please click here to go to our website.
Please note: these Sunday mornings may not be held when the Dharma Center is hosting a weekend retreat. Please check this website’s calendar if you’d like to be sure of the meeting. Thank you.

Palyul Tibetan Sangha: First Sunday of the Month
2026-07-05 09:00 - 10:15 | Hybrid Meeting
Palyul Tibetan Buddhist Sangha
Practices held on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month
9 – 10:15 AM

In person and via Zoom

The Palyul Sangha aspires to nurture, strengthen and serve our community through study, practice and living the Buddhadharma. We follow the principle of Bodhicitta- loving kindness and concern for others- which brings happiness and benefit to all living beings. We are under the direction of His Holiness Penor Rinpoche and our spiritual guide Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche. All are warmly welcome to join us!
Newcomers are welcome to come early.
Questions?
Phone: 406-587-2907

Bozeman Zen Group: Formal Practice
2026-07-05 17:00 - 18:30, 2026-07-12 17:00 - 18:30 | 3810 Valley Commons Dr, #6
Bozeman Zen Group
Sundays
5-6:30 PM
In person Only

This is an opportunity to practice in the Soto Zen style with our forms and practices. All welcome; no prior experience needed.
General Schedule:
4:50 PM Gather
5:00 Zazen
5:30 Walking Meditation
5:40 Service
5:55 Tea & Dharma Talk / Discussion
6:30 Chant Bodhisattva Vows & End
The first Monday of the month is traditional practice night.
4:50 PM Gather
5:00 Zazen
5:30 Walking Meditation
5:40 Zazen
6:00 Service
6:10 Soji (Cleaning the Temple)
Contact bznzen@gmail.com for more info.

Morning Zazen: Online
2026-07-06 06:00 - 06:30, 2026-07-07 06:00 - 06:30, 2026-07-08 06:00 - 06:30, 2026-07-09 06:00 - 06:30, 2026-07-10 06:00 - 06:30, 2026-07-13 06:00 - 06:30, 2026-07-14 06:00 - 06:30 | Online Offering
Morning Zazen
ONLINE with Bozeman Zen Group
Weekdays, 6 – 6:30 AM

Start your morning practicing intention! The Bozeman Zen Group offers online, morning zazen (silent, sitting meditation) to all interested. You do not have to be a Zen practitioner to participate.

Schedule:
6:00 AM: Robe chant, Bell rings three times
Zazen for 25 minutes, bell rings once
6:25 AM Chant Pali refuges

Noon Sit
2026-07-06 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-07-07 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-07-08 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-07-09 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-07-10 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-07-13 12:00 - 13:00 | 3810 Valley Commons Dr, #6
Drop-In Meditation
Mondays-Fridays
12:00 – 1:00 pm
(except holidays)

In Person

Everyone is welcome to attend. A bell-ringer will open and close the session with three bells and will ring one bell at 12:30. The meditation will be in silence, but people are welcome to connect before and after each session.
Drop-in meditations are offered free of any charge, as a communal support to practice. Come and go (quietly) as you need to, latecomers welcome.

Dharma Book Club
2026-07-06 13:00 - 14:00 | 3810 Valley Commons Dr, #6
First Monday of the Month
1-2 PM
Join us for a low key, informal book club/discussion group on the first Monday of each month. No leader, no study questions, no pressure if you didn’t have time to read the book. Or didn’t finish it. Show up anyway. All are welcome.
July’s book will be Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright.
August’s book is Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach.
Contact ann.gregoire@gmail.com if you have questions!

Recovery Dharma Bozeman
2026-07-06 17:30 - 18:30, 2026-07-13 17:30 - 18:30 | 3810 Valley Commons Dr, #6
Recovery Dharma Bozeman
Mondays, 5:30-6:30 PM
In Person

Recovery Dharma Bozeman is a peer-led movement and community welcoming anyone looking to heal from addiction and addictive behavior. Our program uses Buddhist practices and principles of meditation, self-inquiry, wisdom, compassion, and community as tools for recovery and healing.
Our meetings are open to anyone interested in recovery from addiction of all kinds, whether caused by substance use or process addictions like codependency, gambling, eating disorders, work, relationships, technology, or any obsessive or habitual pattern that creates suffering. No meditation experience is necessary, and there is no requirement to believe in anything other than our own potential to change and heal.
We understand that this is not the only path to recovery, and many may choose to combine these practices with traditional recovery programs. We support each other as partners walking the path of recovery together.
More information on Recovery Dharma Global, the peer-led community of which this Bozeman in-person meeting is a part, can be found here: recoverydharma.org. For questions specific to this Bozeman meeting, please contact us at recoverydharmabozeman@gmail.com.

Facilitators bios
While our Sangha is peer-led, the following individuals are responsible for organizing and conducting our meetings, and ensuring our group’s accountability to the Bozeman Dharma Center (BDC) Board of Directors and other BDC leadership. These individuals regard their service to this Sangha to be an integral part of their own recovery from addiction.
Chris Hansen got sober in 1998 in the rooms of AA and Al-Anon, and credits working the 12 steps and the fellowship of the program for his sobriety. Subsequent cultivation of a regular yoga practice in conjunction with a daily seated meditation practice has also been integral to maintaining his sobriety. For the past 10 years he has been interested in the various forms of Buddhist practice and Buddhist psychology in general. He has been sitting regularly with the Joining Rivers Sangha, and enjoys participating in many of the wide array of practice opportunities offered at the Bozeman Dharma Center. He is excited to be helping to bring the Recovery Dharma program to those suffering from addiction.
Carolyn Swed began turning to the dharma some 10 years ago, to help her manage internal stress and interpersonal relationships. As her practice grew, she began to look more clearly into her struggles with alcohol addiction and other compulsive behaviors. She began attending Recovery Dharma meetings online in 2022, and regards it as an integral part of her recovery, and growing Buddhist practice. Carolyn is a regular participant and occasional facilitator of the Bozeman Dharma Center’s Joining Rivers Sangha, and is grateful for the ability to help bring the program of Recovery Dharma to others suffering from addiction.
Amy Kinman is a lifelong meditator and has been meditating regularly since 2012. She found comfort with Buddhist Dharma in 2022 when healing from PTSD and dependence on various behaviors and substances. Mindfulness, meditation, and the Dharma have played key roles in helping her with the challenges of friends and family who are burdened by addiction. Amy learns from many Buddhist traditions and regularly attends meditation retreats as well as special events. She has taught Intro to Meditation at Bozeman Dharma Center and helps facilitate Recovery Dharma meetings.

Joining Rivers
2026-07-06 19:00 - 20:30, 2026-07-13 19:00 - 20:30 | 3810 Valley Commons Dr, #6
Meditation & Mindfulness Practice in the tradition of Plum Village
& the Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh
Meets IN PERSON

Mondays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm
facilitated by Steve Allison-Bunnell

“Engaged Buddhism” is Thich Nhat Hanh’s name for practicing mindfulness in order to manifest joy, peace, and compassion in our relationships and daily lives.
Each week, we do sitting and walking meditation together, and learn from each other by sharing our experiences in the practice. First Mondays of the month, we recite the Plum Village Five Mindfulness Trainings, and other weeks we read and study Thay’s teachings.
All are welcome, and we offer brief instruction and guided meditations to develop our practice and nurture sangha energy.
Please visit Plum Village online for more about our tradition, including practice resources and talks.
Open Way Sanghas are the family of Plum Village practice groups here in Montana, offering semi-annual retreats and days of mindfulness in Missoula, Kalispell, and Helena.
Steve Allison-Bunnell (True Spring Branch) is an ordained member of the Core Community of the
Plum Village Order of Interbeing.
Email bozemantnh@gmail.com with questions or to join our email list and receive Zoom links and weekly announcements.

Kindhearted Awareness Meditation
2026-07-07 10:30 - 11:30 | Online Offering
BIC Drop-In Meditation
Meeting Our Lives with Kindhearted Awareness
Tuesdays
10:30 – 11:30 AM
Led by Suzanne Colón

via Zoom

This program shares the meditation practices that expand our capacity to meet life with an open, stable heart-mind. Guided meditations will vary week to week, providing an opportunity to try new practices and ways of working with life’s challenges. The four heart qualities known as the Brahma Viharas (Noble Abodes) will be cultivated with variations on ways to evoke and develop them: Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity.
Program Schedule:
10:25 – Zoom Room Opens
10:30 – 10:55 – Guided Meditation
Collective Sharing of Delights or Difficulties
Short Reading: Guidance in the Buddhist Practices of the Heart
Discussion until 11:30
Following the guided meditation, we’ll give each other the opportunity to connect, to be supported in times of difficulty, and be witnessed in times of joy. The collective “Sharing of Delights or Difficulties” is formal practice of briefly naming a sorrow or difficulty, a joy or delight, and having the group witness and resonate with each other’s experience.
No prior meditation experience is needed to attend this program. Please make every effort to arrive by 10:30.
This program is offered freely, which means this is a gift to the community, and you are encouraged to pay the gift forward to help cover costs to the degree that you can. This is a program of the Bozeman Insight Community (BIC), offered to the entire Dharma Center community and general public.

Pali Canon Study Group
2026-07-07 13:15 - 14:15 | Hybrid Meeting
Pali Canon Study Group
Tuesdays 1:15-2:15 PM
In person and via Zoom
Although Bozeman Dharma Center houses groups from multiple lineages, one thing we all have in common is a reliance on the teachings of the Buddha. The Pali Canon is recognized as the earliest written record of the Buddha’s teachings, given before the Buddhist community divided into different schools. This peer-led study group will begin by tackling readings from the Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha. You do not need to own the book to participate and do not need to commit to attending every week. Already having a practice and familiarity with the Dharma will be helpful.
Basic Schedule
1:15 Short sit
1:30 Read portion of Pali Canon with discussion afterward
2:15 Close

Newcomer Orientation
2026-07-07 17:00 - 18:00 | 3810 Valley Commons Dr, #6
Newcomer Orientation!
First Tuesday of each Month
5 PM

In Person

Not sure how to begin or what the BDC is all about? Join us on the first Tuesday of each month for an orientation to the Center and basic meditation instruction!

MindSpace
2026-07-07 18:30 - 19:45 | 3810 Valley Commons Dr, #6
MindSpace
A Meditation Group for adults in the Millennial+ generation
Tuesdays 6:30 – 7:45 pm
In Person Only
Summer Schedule: Every Other Tuesday!
Summer meetings will be: June 10, 24, July 8, 22, and Aug 5, 19

MindSpace is an open community gathering of young adults 18-40 years of age. Through meditation we foster a clear mind, compassionate heart, and develop an intimacy with human experiences. We encourage and support each other in daily practice to embody mindfulness in everyday life.
We come together with open hearts and curious, non-judgmental minds to explore meditation practices and share experiences in bringing practice to daily life. Together we create a supportive community, including everyone– from every background, race, gender identity, orientation and ability.
Please email info@bozemandharmacenter.org if childcare would be helpful for you to attend this group.
Meeting Structure
6:25: Gather
6:30: 30 minute meditation
7:00: Reading and Discussion
7:45: End
We choose books that are easy to pick up at any point. Drop-ins are welcome! You do not need to have own the book to participate.
We are currently reading Time to Stand Up: An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth by Thanissara.
Examples of other books we’ve read:
— No Self, No Problem by Anam Thubten (Tibetan tradition)
— Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach (Insight tradition)
— Training in Compassion by Norman Fischer (Zen tradition)
— The Myth of Freedom by Trungpa Rinpoche (Tibetan tradition)

Current Facilitators
Kerry Neal has practiced in the Zen tradition for 8 years. She sits with the Bozeman Zen Group. She helped start MindSpace in 2016 and facilitated until early 2019. She loves the lifelong nature that is meditation practice and working mindfulness into everyday life.
Mary Corelli has 12 years of practice in the Zen and Insight Meditation traditions. She is a mother and a therapist. Mary is a Certified Mindfulness Teacher through Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield’s two year training program. She emphasizes ecological awareness in practice.
Allison Howe has 4 years of meditation practice and has been practicing regularly with MindSpace since 2022. She is an experienced group facilitator and therapist in private practice, helping clients bring mindful awareness into daily life and deepening their relationship with themselves through an embodied sense of openness, compassion, and curiosity.
Andrew Cassidy’s practice began 15 years ago through a mindfulness-based stress reduction program. A data scientist and lover of the outdoors, he values mindfulness and meditation as tools for managing stress, anxiety, and ADHD. Rooted in a spiritual and dharma-based perspective, Andrew draws inspiration from the Buddha’s teachings, emphasizing compassion, mindfulness, and wisdom in daily life.
Connor Free was first introduced to dharma when traveling to India in 2013. His practices today primarily focus on vipassana, metta and mindfulness when on the mat; off the mat, he loves to incorporate walking meditation while exploring the natural beauty of Montana’s great outdoors.

Tergar Bozeman Practice Group
2026-07-08 17:30 - 19:00 | Hybrid Meeting
Wednesdays, 5:30 – 7 PM (Mountain Time)
Tea Social Time: 5-5:25
In person and via Zoom
Group/Practice Co-Coordinator: Sheila, Janet & Rex Email: bozeman@tergar.org
No Registration Necessary
Ter is a Tibetan word for treasure, Gar means gathering. So, Tergar can be understood as a place where people come together to find the sublime treasure … that helps us calm our minds, open our hearts and awaken wisdom.
General Schedule
5:00 – 5:25 Tea Social Time
5:15 Newcomer Instruction
5:25 Gather
5:30 Opening Aspiration
Participants check in on their practice
Meditation (15-20 minutes)
Group discussions on particular questions related to the current topic.
Meditation (15-20 minutes)
Q&A
7:00 Closing Dedication
* We do two 10 min walking meditations every 3rd week in the Practice only session

Under the guidance of Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, the Tergar Meditation Practice Group of Bozeman gathers to study and practice meditation. Mingyur Rinpoche’s approach to meditation focuses on the practice of mindful awareness, which unlocks the door to a calm mind, compassionate heart, and insight into the challenges of day-to-day life. Rinpoche’s teachings emphasize universal principles that are of profound benefit to people of all faiths and belief systems. If you are new to meditation and would like to learn more, or if you are a seasoned practitioner and would like to deepen your practice, please join us. Each session will include guided meditation and group discussion.

Monthly Session Topics
Tergar’s Joy of Living With newly revised material and videos.
Tergar’s Joy of Living is a curriculum developed by Mingyur Rinpoche and Tergar International. Our Leaders present these materials weekly.
We learn, contemplate and meditate to become familiar with our mind, to open our hearts and to fully develop the wisdom of knowing we are whole and complete just as we are…we are not broken, in knowing this we see its true also of all others.

“We are not training in order to learn about objects. We are training to learn about our mind, because our mind holds the source of all possibilities—good and bad, happy and sad, sane and neurotic. Freedom exists within our very own heart and mind.” ~Mingyur Rinpoche

Topic for September & October: Continue with Module –Everything is Meditation
Over the these two months we will present, discuss and practice meditations that enable us to practice awareness with whatever occurs in our life.
Section Topics:

The Problem is the Solution
Energy Movement
The Ups and Downs of Meditation
The Key Points of Meditation

The program includes recorded video teachings from Mingyur Rinpoche and other Tergar instructiors. All are welcome to join us in this exploration of these beautiful teachings and practices. Those who are subscribed to our weekly newsletter will receive additional information and practice tools related to the topic.

Nectar of the Path Practice
Sundays 8 am to 8:45 am – online (NOT the BDC zoom link) What is this practice about? This practice “Nectar of the Path” was written by Mingyur Rinpoche to be practiced by any of his students however experienced they might be. “Nectar” signifies a distillation of something very precious and nourishing. Nectar of the Path is a complete practice encompassing all of the essential aspects of a traditional Tibetan Buddhist practice. In this practice we mix contemplation and meditation, alternating periods of each and chanting in Tibetan and some visualization. If you are interested in joining this practice group, or have questions, please send an email to bozemantergarsmd@gmail.com and tell us your interest, how you learned about us, if you are new to Nectar or have experience with the practice…. . Information on the practice, the practice liturgy, and the zoom link will be sent to you.

Learn more about Tergar International! Find more information on The Joy of Living course here. Learn more about Tergar Bozeman here.

Bozeman Insight Community
2026-07-09 18:30 - 20:00 | Hybrid Meeting
Thursdays, 6:30 – 8:00 pm
In person and via Zoom
Bozeman Insight Community (BIC) is a welcoming community that offers the Buddha’s priceless teachings on wisdom and compassion to all those who seek them. Centered on a commitment to personal practice we support the development and expression of our inherent wisdom and compassion for the benefit of all beings.
The program usually begins with a short teaching to introduce the practice and provide some instruction. Then there is a lightly-guided 30-minute meditation, followed by tea, Q&A, and discussion. We open and close the evening with short chants, which are provided and completely optional.
All are warmly welcome to drop in and join us. No prior experience necessary. If you’d like to talk to one of the leaders prior to attending for the first time, please email us and we’ll connect. We look forward to meeting you and welcoming you to our sangha.
When in person, service dogs, lap babies and school-age children are welcome. There are places in the room and nearby where kids can hang out or do homework. Parents can relax about any disturbance this may cause – our community is not fussy about meditation rooms being super silent (ambient noise is a chance to practice with the conditions and cultivate equanimity). We’d rather have you with us than strive for “perfect” conditions (which don’t exist).
BIC Leadership
Council Member – Sandy Kindt
Council Member – Megan Higgs
Council Member – Marilyn Raffensperger
For leader and council member bios, more information about this group, and to see program updates, please click this link to go to the BIC’s website.

Nectar of the Path Practice
2026-07-12 08:00 - 08:45 | Online Offering
Nectar of the Path Practice
Sundays 8 – 8:45 am
Online (NOT the BDC zoom link)
Nectar of the Path practice is hosted by the Tergar Bozeman Group.
What is this practice about? This practice “Nectar of the Path” was written by Mingyur Rinpoche to be practiced by any of his students however experienced they might be. “Nectar” signifies a distillation of something very precious and nourishing. Nectar of the Path is a complete practice encompassing all of the essential aspects of a traditional Tibetan Buddhist practice. In this practice we mix contemplation and meditation, alternating periods of each and chanting in Tibetan and some visualization.
If you are interested in joining this practice group, please send an email to bozemantergarsmd@gmail.com and tell us your interest, how you learned about us, if you are new to Nectar or have experience with the practice…. Information on the practice, the practice liturgy and the zoom link will be sent to you.
