South America

Grupo Budista de Benito Juarez

Tradition: Mahayana, Budismo Shin de las Americas
Affiliation: North American Shin Association (NASBA)
E-mail: budistas_bjuarez@hotmail.com
Website: http://buddhistfaith.tripod.com/benito_juarez/
Main Contact: Sebastián Calo  
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Nos dedicamos a las enseñanzas del Buda histórico y del reformador religioso del siglo 13, Shinran Shonin, el fundador de budismo Shin o Jodo Shinshu. Además, la tradición iconoclasta y meditativa de Soto Zen nos inspiramos, como un medio eficaz de cultivar mejor un corazón tranquilo y lúcido para oír la luz espiritual dentro de nosotros. También estamos abiertos a todas las tradiciones budistas y a la totalidad de la espiritualidad y de la sabiduría del mundo.

Grupo Budista de Cordoba

Address: Gral. Paz 120 P.10 H Informes: Tienda Esotérica Verde Mente Galería Rex – Loc. 15   Cordoba
Tradition: Mahayana, Shin Buddhism
Affiliation: North American Shin Association (NASBA)
Phone: 0351 – 4113452
E-mail: grupobudistacba@hotmail.com
Website: http://buddhistfaith.tripod.com/cordoba/
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Main Contact: Rodrigo Pedraza Cécere  
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Esperamos que usted se sienta en casa cuando practicamos juntos. Nuestra comunidad espiritual le ofrece la amistad, aprendizaje, enriquecimiento, servicio y práctica.

INSTITUTO DE DIFUSIÓN BUDISTA-CHILE IDB

Address:   La Concepción 109, Providencia, Santiago, Chile. 7500010
Tradition: Non-Sectarian
Phone: 988919856
E-mail: institutobudista@gmail.com
Website: http://www.dharmachile.cl
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Main Contact: Humberto Barahona  Email  (Phone: 9 88919856)
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El Instituto de Difusión Budista en una plataforma para conocer todas las formas tradicionales del Budismo: Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana. Ofrece una visión amplia de las enseñanzas fundamentales y una aproximación práctica a las formas de meditación experimentadas y enseñadas por el Buda. Luego, las personas pueden elegir libremente la tradición budista que sienten más conveniente para ellas. El IDB también procura facilitar la visita a Chile, de maestros calificados de todas las tradiciones budistas.

Jizô Zendo

Address: Av. Tarquino Cordero y Cornelio Crespo. Sector Misicata   Cuenca
Tradition: Mahayana, Sanbo Kyodan Zen - Yamada Koun lineage
E-mail: iarizaga@rocketmail.com
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Main Contact: Ivan Arizaga  Email  (Phone: 593-7-4075539)
Zen Master: Berta Meneses Cho Sui An  
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We practice zazen weekly every Wednesday at 7:30 PM until 8:30 PM.  Monthly Zazenkai every third saturday of the month.  Yearly Sesshin every summer around the second or third weekend of July.

Zazen for begginers every month.

Karma Kagyu Brasil

Address: SQN 105, Bloco C, App. 102  Brasilia 70734030
Tradition: Vajrayana
Affiliation: Karma Kagyu, http://www.kagyu.net/
Phone: ++551164465319
E-mail: gelek.dirk@gmail.com
Website: http://www.karmakagyubrasil.org/
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Main Contact: Flavio Lima  Email  (Phone: ++556181157230)
Spiritual Director: Gelek Tarchin  Email  (Phone: ++551164465319)
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"Karma Kagyu Brasil" is a network of Karma Kagyu Centers in Brazil. There are groups in Sao Paulo, Santos, Florianopolis, Porto Alegre, Brasilia, Goiania, Rio de Janeiro, Porto Seguro, Riberao Preto. There is a team of Dharma-teachers (lamas) teaching in these centers promoting mainly the practice of tchenresig, Shine-Lhaktong and Lodjong. A teacher visits the centres all 3 months. The main teacher is the 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje.

Karma Theksum Chokhorling

Address: Estr. dos Bandeirantes, 25636, Vargem Grande   Rio de Janeiro Rio De Janeiro 22785-092
Tradition: Vajrayana, Karma Kagyu - Karmapa\\'s seat for South America
Phone: 2124286711
Fax: 2124281245
E-mail: office@ktc.org.br
Website: http://www.ktc.org.br
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Spiritual Director: Khenpo Khenrab Wangchuk  Email  (Phone: 55 21 24286711)
Main Contact: Cláudia Carréra  Email  (Phone: 55 21 24286711)
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Daily practices (from Tuesdays to Sundays):

07:00 - Green Tara
17:00 - Tchenrezig
17:40 - Mahakala

Mahabodhi Sunyata Bahia Blanca

Address: Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires, 8000 Argentina  
Tradition: Non-Sectarian, Chan Ssu Lun Tao
Phone: 0291 154671522
E-mail: bosquedeltao@gmail.com
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Teachers: Shan Chien zi Sherab Chödron  
Main Contact: Shan Jieshi  Email  (Phone: 291 154671522)
Contact Person: Shan Jiēshi  Email  (Phone: 0291 154671522)
Spiritual Director: Ven. Shan Chien Zi, Maestro de chan y dzogchen  
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MAHABODHI BUDDHIST RADIO is online via Winamp

Find us at www.shoutcast.com   then search for "Mahabodhi"

Enjoy our tranquil music and teachings, and mantras...

Nichiren Shu Argentina - Sangha de Buenos Aires - Grupo Don Torcuato

Tradition: Mahayana, Buddhism of Nichiren - Budismo de Nichirén
Affiliation: Nichiren Shu
Phone: (+54 11) 4846-1306
E-mail: nichirenshu@gmail.com
Website: http://www.nsargentina.org
Organizador: Sebastián Minuet  Email  
Organizador: Nicolás Pstyga Galizia  Email  
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Budismo de Nichiren Daishonin Escuela de Nichirén Don Torcuato - Prov. de Buenos Aires Reuniones de estudio y de práctica, mas información en www.nsargentina.org Prácticas: * Meditación Shodaigyo * Shakyo (Caligrafía, escritura de Namu Myoho Renge Kyo y del Sutra del Loto en Kanji) * Gongyo * Odaimoku.

Nichiren Shu de Uruguay

Address:   Montevideo 11800
Tradition: Mahayana, Nichiren Shu
Affiliation: Nanbei Kokusai Nichiren Shu - Hokkekyo ji of Brazil
Phone: +59895 579110
E-mail: shami.eisen@gmail.com
Website: http://www.myohorengekyo.org
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Main Contact: Shami Eisen Silva  Email  (Phone: +59895 579110)
Reverend: Yodo Okuda  
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Grupo de práctica y estudio budista, a través de ciclos de reuniones donde se abordan los fundamentos del Budismo, las enseñanzas de Nichiren Shu, el estudio del Sutra del Loto, etc.

Shobo An Zendo

Address: Av. San Martin esq. Pje. Antartida Argentina La Quebrada, Cordoba 5111 Argentina  
Tradition: Non-Sectarian, Tsao Tung Chin Lien Tao
Affiliation: Chin Lien Chia Taoist School
Phone: 54 3543 452717
Fax: same
E-mail: saludrebelde@yahoo.com.ar
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Main Contact: Augusto Al Q\'adi Alcalde  Email  (Phone: 54 3543 452717)
Teacher: Augusto Al Q\'adi Alcalde  
Spiritual Director: Augusto Al Q\'adi Alcalde  
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NIGHT BROTHER’s Zen (Ch’an) Way

Augusto Alcalde was a student of the late Shifu Yuan Chueh from Canton, China, with whom he trained from 1968 until he was fully certified by his teacher, ten years after, being him the most influential relationship in the Way.

He started sharing and conveying the practice of Ch\'an (Chinese Zen) in 1974.
The Tradition in which his teacher Yuan Chueh was rooted was the "Chin Lien Chia" (Golden Lotus), a tradition that embraces the arts of meditation as the play and actualization of full attention (T\'so Ch\'an), with the play of the Internal Martial Arts of china (the Nei Chia Ch\'uan), including T\'ai Chi (Chen Style) and Pa Kua of the Huang Pei Family, together with the short arts of Chi Kung (vital energy practice) and Chinese Yoga, as well as the Healing Arts of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
The Chin Lien Chia is a school that conveys Ch\'an practice in the context of stillness, movement, healing, and everyday life and activities, deeply rooted in the primal Taoism of Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu.

Yuan Chueh\'s focus was, as is Augusto\'s, that true Ch\'an practice has to be rooted in the traditions of Primal Taoism, early Budhism or Theravada (The Way of the Ancients), as well as in the Mahayana (The Great Way), together with the study and involvement with the traditions, myths and cultures that belong to the land and the original dwellers of the land in which the practice and everyday life is happening.
Augusto has been a social activist since the 60\'s in Argentina. He has been also working with engaged buddhists associations as a social activist, for many years, and focuses on social issues from a Latino and Ch\'an vision. He networks with indigenous peoples and groups from Latin America and the world that are engaged in actively resisting the deadly works of ignorance, greed and hate.

He conceives group practice as one of healing and walking together, with no hierarchies, rituals, fixed forms, roles or structures, and open to all traditions.
The focus is on a truly lay, working person\'s practice and play, away from monastic archetypes, multicultural, and willing to contain and be contained by all beings.
It is emphasized the importance of social involvement as an outcome of living, understanding and seeing, given the crucial point in which the Blue Planet and the many beings that inhabit her are, in accordance of the words of Gautama: "only one thing i convey, the understanding of the causes, and the stopping of suffering", or to say it in another way, the arising of true joy, dance and dignity, and the full acceptance and realization of humanity as our nature.

He does not, thus, consider himself a teacher in the traditional sense of the word, with some special or unique realizations or qualities, but a "Kalyanamitra" an ancient dharma term that means something like "spiritual friend", or, as he likes to translate it, "compañero of the way", or "soul mate" (with no capital letters), or, as a musician and poet friend said, "Night Brother".

The focus then is on joy and learning, mutually, in any occasional changing role that one has in life, and the practice and application as work and everyday life and relationships.

He offers as a means of continuity of the relationship, the practice and the play, e-mail correspondence as needed, and phone contact once a month, for all the people that have participated in any of the activities, and are interested in sharing about their practice, play and application.