Dharmadatta Community

“| Other Expenses:, Amount:| Other Expenses includeconvent food and supplies office supplies telephone and internet video and web platforms books and subscriptions vehicle expense travel health medicine professional development and training legal and professional fees depreciation expense., $59357|”

“| Explanation:, BOYAmount:, EOYAmount:| Prepaid Expenses, $0, $4064|”

“| Explanation:, BOYAmount:, EOYAmount:| Accounts Payable, $1053, $2112|”

“| Explanation:| Our organization currently has one person in training following the Buddhist monastic path guidelines. As part of that training Dharmadatta Community offered that nun's personalized training in guiding meditation sessions and she has begun serving our lay congregation in that capacity. A major accomplishment in her development as a Buddhist nun in 2023 she was sent to the Buddhist women's ordination center at Sravasti Abbey where she was granted the subsequent level of ordination shikshamana. This is a major milestone in her advancement as a Buddhist monastic. Shikshamana represents the final level of ordination required before becoming a fully ordained Buddhist nun or bhikshuni. As part of her training she engaged in the annual three-month strict meditation retreat together with the other residential members of the community.”

“| Explanation:| One important accomplishment this year was our first residential retreat since before the pandemic in 2019. Over 100 persons attended the weeklong retreat in person and several hundred more joined online as the retreat was hybrid. Our online congregation grew exponentially during the pandemic as we had been already set up to welcome and offer members a wide range of online spiritual services. As such many had never had the opportunity to gather in person so this was an important moment in community-building as well as spiritual advancement. A further accomplishment in 2023 was the monthlong collaborative creation of a course on Buddhist ecology to be offered online beginning in 2024. A team of lay members joined the monastic members at our residential center in Virginia and spent a month together developing the content for a three-month course that will be offered in Spanish free of charge.”

“| Explanation:| Along with these new initiatives during 2023 we continued our robust offering of services in Spanish including a seven-year study program that had over 400 people enrolled throughout the year a suite of online courses workshops to learn meditation skills at beginner and intermediate level an ongoing monthly Ecosangha gathering for education and community building our regularly scheduled group meditation sessions throughout the week held in our virtual meditation hall Salas de Meditación Dharmadatta which has over 30,000 registered members and individual pastoral care sessions as needed. We continued to offer weekly discourses through the year every Sunday morning via our YouTube channel which this year reached 180,000 subscribers.”