Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation
Insight Meditation Society (Barre, Massachusetts) · 2010
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Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg
1952 CE · Modern · New York City
b. August 5, 1952 (living)
Sharon Salzberg (b. 1952) is an American meditation teacher and author best known for popularizing loving-kindness (mettā) practice alongside insight (vipassanā) meditation in the West. After studying in India, she co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, in 1975 with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein. Her book Lovingkindness and many later works helped bring mettā and mindfulness into mainstream American practice. She continues to teach and write.
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What they did here
Born in 1952; later traveled to India to study Buddhist meditation.
About New York City
New York City, in the US state of New York, began as the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam in the 1620s, was renamed by the English in 1664, and took its present five-borough form in 1898. Its universities, Columbia among them (founded 1754), made it a major centre of science and scholarship; B. R. Ambedkar earned his doctorate in economics at Columbia. Union Theological Seminary, founded in 1836, counted Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich among its faculty and hosted Dietrich Bonhoeffer as a fellow in 1930, and the Orthodox theologian Georges Florovsky also worked in the city. In 1930 Sokei-an founded what became the First Zen Institute of America there, an early landmark of Buddhism in the United States.
In New York City at the same time
B. R. Ambedkar, Pema Chödrön, Robert Thurman, Jon Kabat-Zinn
Across the traditions, in New York City at the same time
In the same place & time
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Sharon Salzberg’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
Across the traditions
In the same tradition
B. R. Ambedkar, Pema Chödrön, Robert Thurman, Joseph Goldstein, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Jack Kornfield
The world in their lifetime
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Sharon Salzberg’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Works(2)
Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
Insight Meditation Society (Barre, Massachusetts) · 1995