Hello Everyone,

The board of the Nashville Buddhist Festival met last week to decide on this year’s plans. We have decided to forego a festival in 2009, with the intent of coming back strong in 2010. However, we want to keep the foundation of our dharma community collaboration strong in 2009, even without a shared event. To that end,  each host sangha of the Nashville Buddhist Festival plans to visit the other host sanghas in order to participate in and experience their practices. This will happen over the next six months or so. Shortly after, we will begin putting plans in place for the 2010 festival.

For those who are new to this newsgroup or haven’t yet begun to practice with a specific sangha, our Nashville Buddhist Festival website is a great resource. We have a “Host Centers” page that describes all of the participating meditation groups, and you are welcome to visit and practice with any of these groups.

We will communicate periodically in 2009  to keep you informed  of special events being offered by our community sanghas.

Yours in the dharma,

Lisa Ernst