Santa Barbara Bodhi Path Buddhist Center

08/07/2025

A beautiful day to celebrate staff!

01/21/2025

How can we prepare ourselves for practice? What does it mean to purity karma? Learn why the preliminary
practices are described as the most profound and deeply transformative practices of our lineage. This course is suitable for students at all levels.

Teacher: Dawa Tarchin Phillips serves as the resident teacher at the Santa Barbara Bodhipath Center, bringing over two decades of dedicated Buddhist practice and teaching. An authorized teacher in the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism, Dawa is celebrated for his profound Dharma teachings and expertise in mindfulness and meditation. Born in New York City and raised in a multicultural family in Europe, he is fluent in English, German, and French, embodying a global perspective. Dawa trained extensively as an ordained monk under the guidance of the esteemed meditation master, Gendun Rinpoche, and completed two intensive three-year meditation retreats at the Dhagpo Kundreul Ling Hermitage in France. His teachings seamlessly blend wisdom, compassion, and clarity, inspiring students from all walks of life.

For those participating online, please note that after you register, you will receive a zoom link from [email protected] the night before the class begins.

We have discounted spaces available if full tuition would present a hardship.

To register: https://bodhipath.org/centers/sb/

01/21/2025

The first steps on the path of awakening include learning how to go for refuge in the Three Jewels: the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha. Dawa Tarchin Phillips will explain what it means to take refuge, and how developing confidence in the awakened qualities of the three jewels is a reliable source of guidance
and protection in times of confusion, personal struggle and strife.

Teacher: Dawa Tarchin Phillips serves as the resident teacher at the Santa Barbara Bodhipath Center, bringing over two decades of dedicated Buddhist practice and teaching. An authorized teacher in the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism, Dawa is celebrated for his profound Dharma teachings and expertise in mindfulness and meditation. Born in New York City and raised in a multicultural family in Europe, he is fluent in Endish. serman. and rrench. embodying a global perspective. Dawa trained extensively as an ordained monk under the guidance of the esteemed meditation master, Gendun Rinpoche, and completed two intensive three-vear meditation retreats at the Ohagpo Kundreul Ling Hermitage in France, His
teachings seamlessly blend wisdom, compassion, and clarity, inspiring students from all walks of life For those participating online, please note that after you register, you will receive a zoom link from sbobodipath.org
the minute before the class begins.

We have discounted spaces available if full tuition would present a hardship.

12/03/2024

Join us in helping support and spread dharma in this world.

12/01/2024

Together we can do extraordinary things. #

10/28/2024

Radical Generosity: The concept that the suffering of others should be as intolerable to us as our own suffering.

10/21/2024

Now more than ever we are called to make a difference. #

10/16/2024

07/11/2024

Join us tonight! We are excited to offer this two week class taught by our teaching assistants exploring the basic principles and practices found in the Buddhist tradition. All are welcome!

03/24/2024

https://watch.eventive.org/illuminate2024/play/65e9cf31d379f0004eb6bbea

There are moments when we get to step out of the ordinary and bear witness to the extraordinary.

03/22/2024

02/16/2022

Due to unforeseen circumstances our resident teacher Dawa is unavailable to teach this weekend, but Tsony, the resident teacher of Natural Bridge Bodhipath in Virginia, had graciously agreed to teach the 6 Paramitas weekend course. Register today https://ezregister.com/events/35988/