Dharmadatta Community

Other major focuses of our community are in providing religious services to our lay congregation through a variety of projects. All our religious services are conducted entirely in Spanish with ritual services group prayer meditation and religious instruction through various online platforms including the Instituto Budadharma service for theological and meditation instruction and our Online Meditation Hall at budismoenlinea.ning.com Salas de meditacion Dharmadatta. The congregation we serve here has over 35,000 members. All services are offered free of charge. Currently 500 members are undergoing our seven-year study and meditation program with an additional 500-700 taking online courses every trimester on a Moodle platform on institutobudadharma.org. Religious instruction Homilies are webcast live every Sunday on the FaceBuda YouTube channel with over 190,000 subscribers. Sunday services are typically attended by over 500 of our congregants with thousands viewing during the week. Although the support of the teachers is a major expense there are no costs specific to our YouTube channel. The online meditation hall and the platform for the online courses and seven-year study program do incur substantial costs which are covered by Dharmadatta Community. Dharmadatta teachers travel each year to offer retreats courses and pastoral care to congregants in an annual two-month teaching tour.