Depth without a maze.
The database can already distinguish the schools beneath this tradition. Until a school has enough content of its own, it remains elegant context rather than another thin page.
Theravada & Insight
This page aggregates all teachers and events linked directly here or to unpublished descendants underneath it.
Thai Forest
Forest monastic lineage within Theravada Buddhism, emphasising strict monastic discipline and meditation in a natural setting.
Insight Meditation
The modern Insight movement that brought Theravada meditation practice to lay audiences in the West, largely independent of monastic robes and ritual forms.
Lineage appears where it matters.
A visitor understands each teacher more precisely, without needing to navigate the taxonomy first.
Ajahn Amaro
Theravada monk in the Thai Forest tradition; co-founder of Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in England.
Ajahn Brahm
British-Australian Theravada monk in the Thai Forest tradition; abbot of Bodhinyana Monastery in Western Australia.
Bhikkhu Analayo
German-born scholar-monk and researcher of early Buddhist texts, teaching through pre-recorded lectures rather than public appearances.
Christina Feldman
Co-founder of Gaia House and guiding teacher of the Insight Meditation Society, teaching within the Bodhi College programme.
Christopher Titmuss
British Insight Meditation teacher and co-founder of Gaia House, teaching mainly online in his eighties after decades of international retreat work.
Gil Fronsdal
Ordained Sōtō Zen priest and guiding teacher of the Insight Meditation Center, bridging Zen training with the Insight Meditation movement.
Jack Kornfield
Clinical psychologist and teacher who trained as a monk in the Thai Forest tradition before co-founding the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock.
Joseph Goldstein
Meditation teacher and co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society, teaching Vipassana practice rooted in the Theravada tradition.
Sharon Salzberg
Meditation teacher and co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society, known for her teaching on loving-kindness (metta) practice.
Tara Brach
Psychologist and meditation teacher known for combining Buddhist practice with Western psychology; co-founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington.
Yung Pueblo
Pen name of Diego Perez, an author writing on healing and self-love with a background in Goenka-tradition Vipassana meditation.
Events across theravada & insight.
Events tagged to an unpublished school or lineage automatically remain discoverable here while that level stays unpublished.
Committed Practitioners Programme Retreat — Netherlands
Netherlands, Netherlands · Residential retreat
Residential Retreat — Insight Retreat Center
Scotts Valley, CA, United States · Residential retreat
Ajahn Brahm UK Teaching Tour
United Kingdom, United Kingdom · Teaching tour