[updated 5/27/94; expires 1/2/95]

                            BHAVANA SOCIETY
                            Rt. 1 Box 218-3
                          High View, WV 26808
                         Voice: (304) 856-3241
                          Fax: (304) 856-2111
                                          
                                          
                         1994 Retreat Schedule
                         =====================
  June 3-5            Weekend retreat
  July 1-10           Ten-day retreat
  August 5-7          Weekend retreat
  August 18-21        High School and College Students' retreat
      For more information about this retreat please call Dr. Arvoranee 
      Pinit, (410) 744-9295, Fax (410) 550-9884
      
  September 2-11      Ten-day retreat
  October 7-9         Weekend retreat
  November 4-13       Ten-day retreat
  
  December 16-January 2, 1995   The Year Ending Two Week Retreat
       The two week retreat is for advanced meditators who should be 
       able to meditate without instructions and interviews.
       
       
    You may come for the first weekend of any ten-day or two-week 
  retreat. Priority is, however, given to those who stay for the full 
  length of the retreat--ask for details.
    
    As more and more people are attending our retreats, we need at 
  least one week advance notice to make arrangement for food and 
  lodging.
  
  
  About the Bhavana Society
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    The Bhavana Society is a monastery and meditation retreat center 
  located on 25 acres of secluded forest near High View, West Virginia. 
  The center offers Society members and friends rare and valuable 
  opportunites to practice Vipassana Buddhist meditation in an ideal 
  setting, in keeping with the original "forest" tradition.
    The Bhavana Society's retreat center offers one-day, weekend, 
  ten-day and extended sessions of meditation practice and teaching in a 
  serene forest setting just 2 hours from Washington, DC. By prior 
  arrangement, experienced meditators can undertake practice for several 
  months in a fully-supported environment. The center has several 
  dormitory rooms, a meditation hall, well-stocked library, and several 
  "kutis", or simple cabins, for intensive long-term practice.
    The Center is staffed by resident Sri Lankan and American monks, 
  and by full-time support personnel. The founder and president of the 
  Society is Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, a Sri Lankan who has has been a 
  monk since the age of 12, and who came to the United States in 1968. 
  He is an internationally recognized author and meditation teacher. His 
  recent book on meditation, "Mindfulness in Plain English" is now in 
  its second printing.

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