Australia

Chag-tong Chen-tong Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Centre

Address:   Snug TAS 7054
Tradition: Vajrayana, Gelugpa FPMT
Affiliation: FPMT Inc.
Phone: +61484381713 or +61410569909
E-mail: info@chagtong.org
Website: http://www.chagtong.org/
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Main Contact: Lindy Mailhot  Email  
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Guided meditation : Discussion : Methods to transform the mind : Develop a good heart 

 We provide: 

• Weekly study group meetings in central Hobart with Dr Sonam Takchoe
• Also regular visiting teachers
• Retreat Opportuinities
• Buddhist library borrowing facilities
• Gift and Book Shop
• Volunteering Opportunities
• access to an international community network of support and facilities.

Cham Shan Temple of Australia

Address: 85 Freemans Drive   Morisset NSW 2264
Tradition: Mahayana, Pure Land, Chinese Tiantai
Phone: 4973-2618
E-mail: info@chamshan.org.au
Website: http://www.chamshan.org.au
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Teacher: Venerable Wai Yim  
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International Buddhist Cham Shan Temple of Australia is a Buddhist Temple of Tiantai School situated in Morisset, located in the Central Coast of NSW.

The temple was founded in 1995 with the goal to serve the Australian community through Dharma teachings (teachings of the Buddha) and spiritual guidance.

Chan Meditation Centre

Address: 36 McDowall McDowall Street, Mitcham 3132, Vic.   Mitcham Vic 3132
Tradition: Mahayana, Chinese Chan Buddhism
Phone: +61-3-8822 3187 +61-407338369 (Laura)
E-mail: laura@chancentre.org
Website: http://chancentre.org
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Main Contact: Laura Chan  Email  (Phone: 0402041997)
Spiritual Director: Ven. Guo Jun  
Notes and Events:

The Chan Meditation Centre extends a warm welcome to all those interested in learning about Chan Buddhism and the Mahayana Buddhist tradition. The centre aims to maintain an active Sangha community dedicated to the preservation and practice of Chinese Buddhism.

The Centre is situated in Mitcham, twenty minutes drive from Melbourne’s CBD. People from all different religions and traditions are welcome to our centre to attend classes and workshops on Buddhist philosophy, listen to lectures, participate in retreats, and, more importantly, to learn and practice Buddhist meditation.

People come from near and far to study and practise Chan, receive support from the community, deepen their understanding of themselves, and learn to live more harmoniously with others. They leave rejuvenated, equipped with the methods and concepts to bring the practice back home.

Chanh-Giac Temple

Address: 45 Money Street, Northbridge   Perth WA 6000
Tradition: Mahayana, Pure Land
Affiliation: Vietnamese Buddhist Association of W.A.
Phone: (08) 9342 0609
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Contact:  (Phone: (08) 9227 9331)
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The Vietnamese Buddhist Temple is the headquarters of the Vietnamese Buddhist Association in Perth. It is well attended throughout the day and in the evenings. Situated in busy Northbridge (an area which is home to many Vietnamese restaurants, shops, and other businesses) the temple provides a refuge from work for many members of the Vietnamese community. It also acts as a focal point for social and cultural activities during holidays and weekends. The temple plays an important role as a centre for Buddhist religious teaching in the city.

Chenrezig Institute

Address: 33 Johnsons Road, Eudlo, QLD 4554   Qld
Tradition: Vajrayana, Tibetan, Gelugpa (FPMT)
Affiliation: FPMT
Phone: (07) 5453 2108
Fax: (07) 5453 2188
E-mail: info@chenrezig.com.au
Website: http://www.chenrezig.com.au
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Main Contact: Director: Maureen Walshe  Email  
Spiritual Director: Lama Zopa Rinpoche  
Contact: Manager-JJ Cantor  Email  
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Chenrezig Institute is a centre for Buddhist study, meditation, retreat, and practice nestled in the foothills of the Sunshine Coast Hinterland in Queensland, Australia.

Established in 1974 Chenrezig Institute was the first Tibetan Buddhist centre in the Western World and remains one of the largest.

Today, the Institute is home to a Tibetan Geshe (Lama), a large community of ordained Sangha (nuns and monks), students, residents, volunteers, retreatants, and guests. 

Apart from the formal study programmes, Chenrezig Institute is a peaceful, calm and relaxing place to spend a few hours, days or weeks. Stroll along the bush paths, wander in the formal garden, sip espresso in the café, have a vegetarian meal, drop in for a meditation class or teaching, or just sit and listen to life.

Sangha Communities at Chenrezig Institute:

Chenrezig Nuns Community
cnc@chenrezig.com.au

Manager Ven Lozang Lhagsam
Losang Dragpa Monastery
cmc@chenrezig.com.au 

Ven Lozang Jhampa

Address: 68A- 70 East Esplanade St   St Albans Vic 3021
Tradition: Mahayana, Vietnamese
Affiliation: The United Vietnamese Buddhist Congregation in Australia-New Zealand
Phone: 03 9367 9689 0422 313 922
E-mail: ngoclien1205@yahoo.com
Website: https://www.facebook.com/lienkim.phan.79
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Main Contact: Nun Thich Nu Nhat Lien  (Phone: 0422.313922)
Notes and Events:

New Vietnamese temple being built as of 3/2/21

Chua Vien Giac

Address: 23 Broad Street   Cabramatta NSW 2166
Tradition: Mahayana, Vietnamese, Pureland
Affiliation: The United Vietnamese Buddhist Congregation in Australia-New Zealand
Phone: +61 404 045 678 +61 2 8764 8570
Fax: +61 2 8764 8570
E-mail: chuaviengiac@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.chuaviengiac.org.au/home-page--trang-nhagrave.html
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Spiritual Director: The Late Most Venerable Thich Phuoc HueHue-OAM  
Teacher: Abbess: Bhikkhuni Thich An Thien  
Notes and Events:

 The Temple provides the following services:

• Spiritual, physical and emotional support, including guidance to those in need
• Daily meditation sessions and vegetarian meals to promote physical well-being 
• Assistance for people experiencing financial hardship by referring them to relevant services
• Scripture programs for local schools and Sunday Buddhism classes for children at the Temple

 SRE Provider(Special Religious Education)

 Buddhism (SRE )Lessons for Primary 

Scholl students ranging from Kindy to year 6 are available every Saturday on VGT's Facebook for all Parents and SRE Volunteer teachers

-Provide assistance to non English background new single mum with basic urgent needs, contact local community services such as accommodation,food agency, Centrelink and financial assistance etc… 

Cittamani Hospice Service

Address: 230 Woombye Palmwoods Road, PO Box 324, Palmwoods, QLD 4555   Qld
Tradition: Vajrayana, Tibetan, Gelugpa (FPMT)
Affiliation: FPMT
Phone: 07) 5445 0822
Fax: 07) 5445 0688
E-mail: cittamanihospice@powerup.com.au
Website: https://www.cittamanihospice.com.au/
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Contact: Alex Moore (Director)  
Main Contact: Director Alex Moore  
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Cittamani Hospice Service provides professional palliative care to people who are dying and their families. We offer compassionate care and honour clients’ individual choices.

We aim to provide the highest quality service from the time of diagnosis through to the bereavement period. Our belief is that this service is best provided in a healthy and supportive community where death, dying and bereavement are openly discussed and accepted.

The promotion of healthy dying requires terminally ill adults and children to have a choice in where and how they spend their remaining life. To support this choice a range of inpatient and community services are required to ensure continuity of care. The availability of knowledgeable networks of community members is vital to the success of this process.

To Cittamani Hospice Service, a hospice is a holistic approach to care rather than a place.

Our service includes:

• holistic client-centred care
• hospice-at-home program
• multidisciplinary teamwork
• community participation
• hospital/general practitioner/community services collaboration
• bereavement support program
• community and professional education in issues of death and dying

Cittamani Hospice Service exists within a comprehensive and integrated health network and acts as a model for community-based hospice services both within Australia and overseas.

CityZen

Address:   Malvern East
Tradition: Theravada
Affiliation: Buddhist Society of Victoria
E-mail: cityzen@bsv.net.au
Website: https://www.bsv.net.au/cityzen/
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What is CITYZEN?

Clifton Hill Zendo

Address: 17 Clive Street, Alphington Vic 3078   Vic
Tradition: Mahayana, Western
Phone: (03) 9499 2671 or 0424 047 442
E-mail: plbstn@yahoo.com
Website: https://www.facebook.com/CliftonHillZendo
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Main Contact: Contact: Paul Boston (Phone: (03) 9499 2671)  
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The Clifton Hill Zendo has a schedule of sitting meditation on three days of the week. The basic idea is to provide a place where people can come together to support each others practice. Only minimal instruction is given.

Zazen (meditation) times:

• Tuesdays  8.30am -10.30am
• Fridays 8.30am -10.30 am
• Sundays 4.30pm-7.30pm

These sittings are held at the Clifton Hill Yoga Studio 127 Queens Pde Clifton Hill.

Coast and City Sangha

Address: Adelaide and Middleton   SA
Tradition: Theravada, secular
Phone: (08) 8555-2588
E-mail: ammarkey@yahoo.com.au or
Website: http://coastandcitysangha.weebly.com/
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The groups that make up the Coast and City Sangha ( Goolwa Dharma Group  and Ashtree Sangha  follow a broad, secular approach.  

This approach values what it is that people actually experience, both in meditation and in daily life.  Within the framework of the teachings of the Buddha, this approach gives us a way to explore, and come to understand more about, these experiences and our inner worlds.

We encourage you to approach meditation with gentleness and curiosity, allowing your own unique experience to unfold naturally;  being open to, and cultivating awareness of, the rich variety of experiences that make up our inner lives, and coming to appreciate in a new way even those aspects we may usually view as unacceptable or mundane

Ashtree Sangha meets on the second Sunday of every month from February to December, upstairs at the Hatha Yoga Shala, 172 Hutt Street, Adelaide. Sangha meetings run from 3 to 5pm.  

 The Goolwa Dharma Group is based at the Middleton Pioneer Hall, Walker Place, Middleton or see map below. We meet fortnightly on a Monday 10.00 to 12.00 noon. 

For more information, contact Anna ammarkey@yahoo.com.au  ( Ashtree Sangha ) or Barb bkirke@internode.on.net ( Goolwa Dharma Group )

Curtin Buddhist Association

Address: Curtin University of Technology -Bentley Campus   WA
Tradition: Non-Sectarian, Student society
E-mail: nampur@iinet.net.au
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Main Contact: Kelsand Nampur  Email  
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Daham Niketanaya

Address: 1690 Mickelham Road, Yuroke, VIC 3063   Vic
Tradition: Theravada, Sri Lankan
Affiliation: North Victorian Buddhist Association
Phone: 03 9333 4848
E-mail: kotte1952@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.dahamniketanaya.org.au
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Main Contact: Bhante Sathindriya Thera.  
Teacher: Ven. Kotte Santhindriya  
Notes and Events:

The Daham Niketanaya was established in 1994 by the North Victorian Buddhist Association Inc. Now located at Yuroke, the temple's main objective is to maintain a centre for education and training in Buddhist culture and Asian languages. The temple also engages in activities to increase the awareness of Budhism and meditation in the community at large. One of temple's main tasks is to promote social fellowship and harmony within the framework of tolerance, participation, loving kindness and compassion in keeping with the Buddhist tradition.

The Centre also caters for the practice of meditation and encourages the practical observance of Theravada Buddhism for Buddhists and non Buddhists among Australians.

DaiJus Zen Group

Address: 434 King STREET   Newtown NSW 2042
Tradition: Mahayana, Myoshinji
Affiliation: Rinzai Zen
Phone: 04321 90 771
E-mail: daijuzenji@hotmail.com
Website: http://daiju.com.au/meditation.html
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Classes start by teaching the physical and mental posture necessary for meditative awareness then develop into exploring ways to use this awareness in our day-to-day life.

The Rev. DaiJu has had over 8 years in Japanese Monasteries and over 12 years of experience teaching the young and old of all Faiths.

Regular Beginner and Experienced Groups are available at The Buddha Bar Healing Clinic in Newtown on Monday and Wednesday evenings as well as Saturday mornings
Private classes for individuals or groups can be arranged by contacting DaiJu directly.

Dakkhina Dhammatthala Southern Oasis of Dhamma

Address: 79 Davis Avenu   Christies Beach SA 5165
Tradition: Theravada
Affiliation: Buddhist Society of South Australia
Phone: 0401080953
E-mail: ven.santacari@gmail.com
Website: http://www.dhammatthala.org
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Teacher: Ayya Santacari Bhikkhuni  
Spiritual Director: Ajahn Brahm  
Notes and Events:

 Monthly Program

Pindapat in Rundle Mall 3rd Fridays 10.30 am

Weekly Program
Tuesday 1pm: UniSA Learn to Meditate & Guided Meditation
Tuesday 7pm: Sitting Group @ DD, Christies Beach
Tuesday 8.15pm Sutta discussion @ DD, Christies Beach

Saturday 3pm: Learn to Meditate and Guided Meditation @ DD
Saturday 4pm: Dhamma Discussion and cups of tea @ DD
Saturday 5pm: Sitting Group @ DD

Dalai Lama in Australia Ltd

Address:   Paddington NSW 2021
Tradition: Non-Sectarian
Phone: 02 9575 4888
E-mail: lynn@dalailamainaustralia.org
Website: http://www.dalailamainaustralia.org
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Teacher: His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama  
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Dalai Lama in Australia are the organisers of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama\\\'s visits to Australia.

 PO Box 125Paddington NSW 2021

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