Welcome to FWBO-NYC

Friends of the Western Buddhist Order New York City

The FWBO is a worldwide Buddhist Movement devoted to teaching the essential truths of Buddhism in a format suited to the Western practitioner in the modern world. FWBO-NYC offers meditation classes and Buddhist study for all levels of experience in the heart of the New York City.

Friends of the Western Buddhist Order.

The FWBO was founded by an English Buddhist, Sangharakshita who spent many years studying Buddhism in India, before returning to the West. The FWBO is a network of communities, meditation centers and other institutions dedicated to bringing the spirit of Buddhism to the West. girl-med

The forms in which Buddhist truths are expressed always adapt according to circumstances. But the essence of Buddhism transcends culture and conditions.

Now that Buddhism has come to the West, westerners are faced with the task of creating new and viable Buddhist traditions for the modern world. Over the last thirty years the FWBO has grown to be one of the largest Buddhist movements in the West, with canter's and activities in many cities around the world.

The FWBO is an international Buddhist Movement with centers in Europe, India, Australia, New Zealand and the USA. It was founded in 1967 by the Venerable Sangharakshita, an Englishman with twenty years of experience as a Buddhist monk and scholar in India.

The FWBO in New York City holds regular introductory meetings as well as a weekly group that meditate and study together.

Buddha recognized that ignorance of our true nature is the root of all the torment of samsara, and the root of ignorance itself is the mind's habitual tendency to distraction.

To end the mind's distraction would be to end samsara itself; the key to this, he realized, is to bring the mind home to its true nature, through the practice of meditation.

~Sogyal Rimpoche

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Play "The Buddha - In His Own Words"
The life of the Buddha assembled from the original texts and performed as a one-man show.

Movie The Dhamma Brothers
An overcrowded maximum-security prison—the end of the line in Alabama’s correctional system—is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program.

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