Clear Sky Meditation & Study Foundation
Cockell Rd, Bull River, BC V0B 1N0
Mail: PO Box 19
Fort Steele, BC
V0B 1N0
250-429-3929
https://www.planetdharma.com/
E-mail: contact@clearskycenter.org
Resident co-teachers: Doug Duncan, Catherine Pawasarat
Location: Cranbrooke, BC
Lineage: Namgyal Rinpoche
Practices: Chanting mantras, dance, discussion groups, meditation, music, painting, prostrations, retreats, short-term precepts
Meditation: Breaths (counting), breaths (noticing), calming (shamatha), deity sadhana, dzogchen, insight (vipassana), koan, loving kindness (metta), mudra, visualization, yoga postures, walking, zazen
Public activities: Morning meditations daily. Dharma classes twice a week.
Annual retreats – one month (Feb/Mar), 2 week (June), summer program (July/Sept)
Latest book: Wasteland to Pureland – https://www.planetdharma.com/pureland/
Other activities and initiatives:
Grasslands restoration workshops & demonstration plot
Farm enterprise – 25 acres (20 in hay, 5 is experimental)
Food forest – educational plot, annual workshops
Farm value-added product sales – garlic, produce, relish, chutney, pickles, sea buckthorn tea & berries
Associated in Canada with: Dharma Centre of Canada
Languages: English, French, Japanese, Spanish
Established: 2004
Charity number: 847406071RR0001 Registered 2005
Listing updated: March 2022