San Francisco Dharma Center will provide a home for Insight Meditation practice and Theravada Buddhist study in San Francisco that is welcoming to diverse communities and connected to the life of the city.

This urban meditation center will be a place for classes, sitting groups, community activities, service work, and more, rooted in the cultivation of integrity, wisdom and compassion. San Francisco Dharma Center will support integrating meditation and Buddhist practice into daily life, with an emphasis on our impact on each other and the world.

Nonprofit Board: (bios to be reviewed)

Anushka Fernandopulle has trained in the Buddhist tradition in the US, India and Sri Lanka for over 30 years and teaches retreats and workshops around the world.

Pawan Bareja

Tara Seneviratne

John Martin has been devoted to dharma practice since 2001. His practice includes both long retreat practice and an engaged practice in the world. In his teachings, he emphasizes the aliveness of practice in everyday life, as well as the cultivation of the beautiful heart qualities (brahmaviharas).

Advisory board:

Ayya Tathaaloka is a Buddhist scholar and Abbess of Dhammadharini Vihara and Aranya Bodhi Hermitage in California.

Pascal Auclair is co-founder of Voie Boréale/True North Insight Meditation in Canada

Bonnie Duran is a Professor at Univ of Washington, faculty at the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute, and a Dharma teacher in Seattle

Gil Fronsdal is the founding teacher of Insight Meditation Center, Redwood City CA. 

Joseph Goldstein is co-founder of Insight Meditation Society in MA.

Jack Kornfield is a founding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center in CA.

Narayan Helen Liebenson is a Guiding Teacher at Cambridge Insight Meditation Center.

Catherine McGee is a member of the Gaia House Teacher's Council, UK

Sharon Salzberg is a co-founder of Insight Meditation Center in MA

Larry Yang is a Founding Teacher of Insight Community of the Desert in CA

Carol Wilson is a Guiding Teacher at Insight Meditation Society in MA