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Tara Brach

Tara Brach

1953 CE · Modern · Washington, D.C.

b. May 17, 1953 (living)

Tara Brach (b. 1953) is an American clinical psychologist and insight-meditation teacher who founded the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, D.C. She is widely known for integrating Buddhist mindfulness with Western psychology, especially through her concept of 'radical acceptance,' the title of her 2003 book, and through a long-running meditation podcast. Her teaching reaches a large lay audience. She continues to teach.

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Washington, D.C.

What they did here

Founded the Insight Meditation Community of Washington (IMCW), one of the larger East Coast meditation communities.

About Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., is the capital of the United States, a federal district on the Potomac River formed from land given by Maryland and Virginia. Congress authorized the site in the Residence Act of 1790, and the government moved there from Philadelphia in 1800, when the second president, John Adams, moved into the newly finished White House. It has since been the seat of the federal government and of national institutions such as the Smithsonian museums. Its religious life includes Washington National Cathedral and, among more recent communities, the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, a Buddhist vipassana centre founded by the teacher Tara Brach in 1998.

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