Toronto Meditation Guide

Phone: (416) 588-3251
Email: sunimyangil@yahoo.ca
Website: awakenedmeditationcentre.com
Address: 134 Sixth Street, Toronto, ON, M8V 3A5

The purpose of the Nine Mountains Zen Gate Society is to teach Gan Hwa (Ko-An) Zen meditation and practice. The organization was founded by Ven. Hwasun Yangil in 1986. Read more »

Phone: (416) 782-8227
Email: registrar@nalandacollege.ca
Website: www.nalandacollege.ca
Address: 47 Queen’s Park Crescent East, Toronto, ON

The mandate of the College, in addition to imparting knowledge, can be said to help build a “Community of Better Human Beings”. To have disciplined, mindful and wise individuals is to have such a Community. The responsibility of becoming a “better human being” lies within each one of us - Students, Faculty, Board, Administration and Volunteers. It is a collective responsibility as well, inspired further by the Buddha’s living principle “I do as I say, I say as I do.” Nalanda College of Buddhist Studies was founded in 2000 by Professor Suwanda H.J. Sugunasiri. Read more »

Phone: (416) 658-1698
Email: curvedspace@gmail.com
Website: www.mindfulnesspractice.ca
Address: Fellowship Room, Emmanuel Howard Park Church, 214 Wright Ave., Toronto, ON

We are a community of people practicing mindfulness in the tradition of Vietnamese Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. We were founded in 1995 with the encouragement of Sister Annabel Laity, abbess of Green Mountain Dharma Center in Vermont, one of Thich Nhat Hanh’s monestaries. Read more »

Phone: (416) 834-1698
Email: ghan@nexicom.net
Website: mindfulnesspractice.sa.utoronto.ca
Address: Multifaith Centre, Main Activity Hall, 2nd floor, 569 Spadina Ave, Toronto, ON

The purpose of the Mindfulness Practice Community at the University of Toronto is to offer students, faculty, and alumni a place to practice and discuss mindfulness. People from all backgrounds and religious traditions are welcome. Our practice is based on the Zen Buddhist teachings of the Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh. Through the practice of meditation, the study of Buddhist texts, and sharing of our experiences, insights and new skills emerge. Our group started practicing in 2002 by Ghan Chee and a group of students. Read more »

Phone: (647) 999-8966
Email: info@lookagain.ca
Website: www.lookagain.ca
Address: 95 Lavinia Ave, Toronto, ON

The purpose of Look Again is to help people wake up. The group was founded in 2004 by Franca Leeson.

“Waking up isn’t about getting somewhere, or becoming something that we are not. We are already awake — it’s just covered over with notions of who we are, who we should be, and how everything else should be. Meditation practice helps us observe, work with, and ultimately let go of delusions that block our experience of life.” –Franca Leeson Read more »

Phone: (905) 296-3728
Email: dharma@lamayesheling.org
Website: www.lamayesheling.org

Our purpose is to learn about Buddhist Philosophy, to become part of a community, and most importantly to discover methods that help you to overcome suffering, develop compassion and gain insight. We are a collection of FPMT study groups in Central Ontario, meeting in Kitchener/Waterloo, Oakville, Burlington and Hamilton.

The Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) transmits the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through Tibetan Buddhist teachings, meditation, community service, retreat centers, and projects that preserve the tradition. FPMT is based on the Gelugpa tradition of Lama Tsong Khapa of Tibet as taught by our founder, Lama Thubten Yeshe and spiritual director, Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

The Lama Yeshe Ling Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Study Group was founded by Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Read more »

Phone: (416) 653-5371
Email: tenzin@ksdl.org
Website: www.ksdl.org
Address: 86 Vaughan Road, Toronto, ON

The Gyalwa Karmapa Ugyen Trinley Dorje´s main centre in Canada, the Karma Kagyu Centre of Toronto was established in 1976. Most of the centre´s members are Canadian practitioners of Buddhism in the Tibetan tradition. During a 1980 visit to Toronto, the Karmapa installed Choje Lama Namse Rinpoche as resident teacher at the Karma Kagyu Centre as well as his personal representative in Canada. Beginners and advanced students alike are welcome. Read more »

Phone: (866) 523-2672 or (416) 762-8033
Email: info@kadampa.ca
Website: www.kadampa.ca
Address: 631 Crawford Street, Toronto, ON

We are a Kadampa Buddhist Centre that offers classes in meditation and Buddhism that are available to everyone. Kadampa Buddhism is a Mahayana Buddhist school that was founded by the great Indian Buddhist master Atisha and was introduced into the west by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso in 1977. Read more »

Phone: (705) 632-0793
Email: conacher-allen@sympatico.ca
Website: www.juniperhillretreat.org
Address: 671 Godolphin Rd, RR #1, Campbellford, ON

Juniper Hill Retreat Centre provides a place for soliatary meditation practice to help practitioners to deepen their spiritual meditation practice. Meditation instruction is provided. The organization was founded in 2003 by Madeline Conacher & Louis Allen who are members of the Toronto Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Centre. We are long time Buddhist practitioners and trained meditation instructors. Read more »

Phone: (416) 486-5105
Website: www.friendsoftheheart.com
Address: 2510 Yonge Street, Suite 324, Toronto, ON

Our aim is to help people develop ways to live with a compassionate heart and a clear mind while remaining engaged with the ordinary world. We work in a variety of ways: through meditation, creative movement and yoga, through intellectual study and discussion, through visual art, story telling and sound. Friends of the Heart was founded in 1992 by Catherine Jetsun Yeshe and a group of students. Read more »