The Barre Center for Buddhist Studies is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to exploring Buddhist thought and practice as a living tradition, faithful to its origins, yet adaptable to the current world. The center provides a bridge between study and practice, between scholarly understanding and meditative insight. It encourages engagement with the tradition in a spirit of genuine inquiry.

Located on 90 acres of wooded land in rural, central Massachusetts, just a half mile from the Insight Meditation Society, BCBS provides a peaceful and contemplative setting for the study and investigation of the Buddha’s teachings. The secluded campus consists of a 240 year-old farmhouse, a dharma hall, and three cottages which taken together provide space for a 5,000 volume library, classroom, meditation hall, student housing, dining, and offices.

The study center offers a variety of courses, workshops, retreats, and self-study programs to further research, study, and practice. Our programming is rooted in the classical Buddhist tradition of the earliest teachings and practices, but calls for dialogue with other schools of Buddhism and with other academic fields. All courses support both silent meditation practice and conscious investigation of the teachings.

Contact Information:
149 Lockwood Road · Barre, Massachusetts 01005
(978) 355-2347 office · (978) 355-2798 fax bcbs@dharma.org

CAMPUS TOUR

The Dharma Hall
A lovely timber-framed meditation hall and classroom capable of holding between twenty-five and a hundred students, depending on the program. Below the main floor are fourteen rooms, all singles, and two bathrooms with showers. Each room has its own sink, desk, twin bed with standard mattress, adjustable heating, and more. (Additional student housing in the Farmhouse and cottages.)

	The meditation hall.
One of fourteen singles in the Dharma Hall.

The Farmhouse
The original farmhouse was built about 250 years ago and has since seen a number of additions and renovations. The Farmhouse has a library of about 5,000 volumes that is free and open to the public. It also has a dining room that seats 45, a large central room that is used both as a classroom and as a reading room, a computer room for students, and offices. There are eight rooms for students: all rooms are generally used as singles, but on high-capacity courses may act as doubles.

Three Kutis (Cottages)
Three forest cottages, which can house one or two students comfortably, for teachers, self-study and course participants.

Environs
Miles of adjoining country roads and forest paths.

Lockwood Road in autumn.	A view of Mt. Wachusett.