For My House will be called a House of Prayer for all the peoples.

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Tabor Divine Retreat Center popularly known as Tabor Ashram has, over the years, evolved into a House of Prayer for all, and a place where Gods living presence is powerfully felt. The good God has provided peace, healing and solace for several lakhs of people at this Center, irrespective of caste or creed, in the past 20-plus years. The broken-hearted, the poor & needy, the sick & suffering continue to witness divine intervention in their lives through wondrous miracles and incredible healings. Ever since it was founded, in response to a divine call way back in 1993, people have been attracted to this Center not only from Mumbai and its surroundings, but also from all over Maharashtra, Gujarat and various parts of the Country. This House of Prayer has united numerous broken families, directed the lives of thousands of youngsters that went astray and created a culture of forgiving love in the society. The transformation of this Retreat Center was nothing short of phenomenal.

Tabor Divine Retreat Centre is the culmination of Tabor Ashram and Tabor Bhavan.

A warm Welcome to all of you to partake in the glorious launching of our Tabor Website. It is special blessing for us to declare it open on this auspicious day in the presence of such a large gathering of faithful people. We thamk Lord our God for this golden moments.

Tabor Ministry The word of God Ministry preaches the word of God .Total surrender to God is given prominence during the sessions. People are reminded of loving promises in the Bible.One such promise is Bow down, then, before the power of God now, so that He may raise you up in due time, unload all your burden on to Him, sins He is concerned about you.(1 Pet.5:6,7).

One such promise is Bow down, then, before the power of God now, so that He may raise you up in due time, unload all your burden on to Him, sins He is concerned about you.(1 Pet.5:6,7) Learning to place absolute faith in the power of God is the underlying message.The music ministry adds vibrancy to praise and worship as the people lift their hearts and minds to God in one accord. Perpetual adoration and intersession ministry as always been vibrant and continues to be so. We invite men and women from all sections to voluntarily become prayer-warriors in the Tabor Ministry.

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Buddhists in Arkansas are represented by ethnic immigrants who bring to the state the religious practices of their homelands as well as native Arkansans who have turned to Buddhism for their spiritual needs. Though less than one percent of the population of Arkansas, Buddhists in the state have established temples testifying to their presence, in addition to meeting in a variety of formal and informal groups.

Buddhism can be described as a religion, a philosophy, a psychology, a practice, or a way of life. Buddhisms essentially non-theistic framework, along with its emphasis on personal experience as the only true validation of its teachings, sets it apart from most other religious systems. Despite the varied schools of Buddhist thought and practice, the central focus of Buddhism is on the elimination of individual suffering through training the mind. The foundation of all Buddhist thought is summarized in the Four Seals of Buddhism: 1) all composite phenomena are impermanent; 2) all tainted emotions (emotions that arise out of ignorance, hatred, or craving) are painful and cause suffering; 3) all phenomena are empty of inherent existencethat is, phenomena arise only out of interdependence on other causes and conditions; and 4) Nirvana (escape from the cycle of death and rebirth) is true peace.

There are at least two Buddhist temples in Arkansas serving primarily Laotian immigrant communities: Wat Buddha Samakitham in Fort Smith (Sebastian County) and Wat Lao Thepnimith Xaimongkoon in Springdale (Washington County). Wat Buddha Samakitham, the largest in the state; was founded in 1989 and, by 2001, had ten permanent monks and occupied six acres of land. Fort Smith is also home to two Vietnamese Buddhist temples, the foremost of which is Cha Ph Minh.Fort Smith temple Wat LaoBuddharam was destroyed by fire on March 5, 2015. In 2005, the Cha Bat Nha temple in Bauxite (Saline County),which serves a predominately Vietnamese community, opened.

The oldest and largest Buddhist society in Arkansas not associated with a particular ethnic or immigrant group is the Ecumenical Buddhist Society of Little Rock, founded by Anna Cox, Jay McDaniel, and Charles Hicks; this group, which began meeting in the late 1980s and was formally established in 1993, accommodates a variety of Buddhist traditions. In Fayetteville (Washington County), Barbara Taylor founded the Morning Star Zen Center (associated with the Korean Kwan Um school) in 1986. Other small practice groups were founded in northwest Arkansas during the 1990s and 2000s, including the Buddhist Meditation and Spiritual Support Group, founded by Geoff Oelsner in 1996; the Fayetteville Soto Zen Center, founded by Jack McDowell in 2000; and the Unitarian Universalist Buddhist Fellowship, founded by James Ownbey and Jerry Walsh in 2004.

One of Arkansass most famous Buddhists was death row inmate William Frank Parker, a double murderer who converted to Buddhism while in prison and impressed many with the depth of his personal transformation. He was briefly a cause clbre among American Buddhists, with the Dalai Lama and actor Richard Gere among the hundreds calling for clemency, before he was executed by lethal injection on August 8, 1996.

In the fall of 2006, Geshe Thupten Dorjee, a Tibetan monk in the Gelug tradition, accepted a position at the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville (Washington County), teaching courses in Buddhist philosophy, Tibetan culture, and non-violence. Outside of his university duties, Geshe Dorjee provides Buddhist teachings through several groups and organizations, including regular teachings at the Tibetan Buddhist Practice Group led by Pam Dramis. In 2007, Geshe Dorjee, Professor Sidney Burris, and others founded the Tibetan Cultural Institute of Arkansas, which is dedicated to helping the Tibetan people preserve their culture within the emerging global village. The Tibetan Buddhist presence in Arkansas is also manifest in the Katong Choling Mountain Retreat Center in Newton County, which was founded by abbot Khentrul Lodr Thay Rinpoche and includes a small cave temple; the land was consecrated in 2010.

Because of the diversity and lack of formal hierarchy within American Buddhism, statistics are difficult to gather. One source estimates the number of Buddhists in Arkansas in 1990 at 0.2 percent of the total population. Buddhism remains one of the very smallest religions in the United States and in Arkansas; at the same time, however, there is an indication that the religion is one of the fastest-growing in the Western world.

For additional information:Barbee, Eric. Pluralistic Society. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,November 24, 2001, pp. 4B5B.

Buddhark. http://buddhark.com/ (accessed January 26, 2015).

EBS Revolves around Buddhist Meditation. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,March 23, 2003, p. 4B.

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Buddhism is a path of practice and spiritual development leading to Insight into the true nature of reality. Buddhist practices likemeditation are means of changing yourself in order to develop the qualities of awareness, kindness, and wisdom. The experience developed within the Buddhist tradition over thousands of years has created an incomparable resource for all those who wish to follow a path a path which ultimately culminates in Enlightenment or Buddhahood.An enlightened being sees the nature of reality absolutely clearly, just as it is, and lives fully and naturally in accordance with that vision. This is the goal of the Buddhist spiritual life, representing the end of suffering for anyone who attainsit.

Because Buddhism does not include the idea of worshipping a creator god, some people do not see it as a religion in the normal, Western sense. The basic tenets of Buddhist teaching are straightforward and practical: nothing is fixed or permanent; actions have consequences; change is possible. So Buddhism addresses itself to all people irrespective of race, nationality, caste, sexuality, or gender. It teaches practical methods which enable people to realise and use its teachings in order to transform their experience, to be fully responsible for theirlives.

There are around 350 million Buddhists and a growing number of them are Westerners. They follow many differentforms of Buddhism, but all traditions are characterised by non-violence, lack of dogma, tolerance of differences, and, usually, by the practice ofmeditation.

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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, said the Cat. I dont much care where said Alice. Then it doesnt matter which way you go.

Do you know where youre going? Where do you see yourself in a year, five years and perhaps ten years down the road?

In the years where I have planned out what I wanted to accomplish, I invariably achieved what I set out to do and it has consistently been more than in the years when I didnt plan.

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He who fails to plan is planning to fail. Winston Churchill

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Using an underlying theme of EMPOWERMENT, a positive life view is presented in a way which is motivating even to the most discouraged or resistant adolescent. Students are taught how to "take control of" their emotions by "CHOOSING" to be positive, happy, and powerful, rather than negative, unhappy, and a victim by CONTROLLING what they focus on and tell themselves. Power is redefined as "control over one's self" rather than control over others. "LIVING POWERFULLY" is defined as being aware of one's choices and the possible consequences which could follow, consciously making a choice and then "owning" the results--good OR bad, rather than giving away one's "power to learn" from mistakes by blaming someone else. Students are taught to set goals in order to "TAKE CONTROL OF" their lives, since the brain's job is to create in reality whatever directions it receives.

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Theravda (Pali, literally "school of the elder monks") is a branch of Buddhism that uses the teaching of the Pli Canon, a collection of the oldest recorded Buddhist texts, as its doctrinal core, but also includes a rich diversity of traditions and practices that have developed over its long history of interactions with various cultures and communities. It is the dominant form of religion in Cambodia, Laos, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Burma, and is practiced by minority groups in Vietnam, Bangladesh, and China. In addition, the diaspora of all of these groups as well as converts around the world practice Theravda Buddhism.

Theravda Buddhism is followed by various countries and people around the globe, and are:

Today, Theravda Buddhists, otherwise known as Theravadins, number over 150 million worldwide, and during the past few decades Theravda Buddhism has begun to take root in the West[a] and in the Buddhist revival in India.[web 2]

The name Theravda comes from the ancestral Sthvirya, one of the early Buddhist schools, from which the Theravadins claim descent. After unsuccessfully trying to modify the Vinaya, a small group of "elderly members," i.e. sthaviras, broke away from the majority Mahsghika during the Second Buddhist council, giving rise to the Sthavira sect.[1] According to its own accounts, the Theravda school is fundamentally derived from the Vibhajjavda "doctrine of analysis" grouping,[2] which was a division of the Sthvirya.

Theravadin accounts of its own origins mention that it received the teachings that were agreed upon during the putative Third Buddhist council under the patronage of the Indian Emperor Ashoka around 250 BCE. These teachings were known as the Vibhajjavada.[3] Emperor Ashoka is supposed to have assisted in purifying the sangha by expelling monks who failed to agree to the terms of Third Council.[4] Later, the Vibhajjavdins in turn is said to have split into four groups: the Mahsaka, Kyapya, Dharmaguptaka, and the Tmraparya.

The Theravda is said to be descended from the Tmraparya sect, which means "the Sri Lankan lineage." Missionaries sent abroad from India are said to have included Ashoka's son Mahinda and his daughter Sanghamitta, and they were the mythical founders of Buddhism in Sri Lanka, a story which scholars suggest helps to legitimize Theravda's claims of being the oldest and most authentic school.[4] Sanghamitta is said to have founded the Mahavihara "Great Monastery" of Anuradhapura. In the 7th century CE, the Chinese pilgrim monks Xuanzang and Yijing refer to the Buddhist schools in Sri Lanka as Shngzub (Chinese: ), corresponding to the Sanskrit "Sthavira Nikya" and the Pali "Thera Nikya."[b][c] The school has been using the name Theravda for itself in a written form since at least the 4th century, about one thousand years after the Buddha's death, when the term appears in the Dpavasa.[d]

According to Buddhist scholar A. K. Warder, the Theravda

... spread rapidly south from Avanti into Maharastra and Andhra and down to the Chola country (Kanchi), as well as Sri Lanka. For some time they maintained themselves in Avanti as well as in their new territories, but gradually they tended to regroup themselves in the south, the Great Vihara (Mahavihara) in Anuradhapura, the ancient capital of Sri Lanka, becoming the main centre of their tradition, Kanchi a secondary center and the northern regions apparently relinquished to other schools.

Over much of the early history of Buddhism in Sri Lanka, three subdivisions of Theravda existed in Sri Lanka, consisting of the monks of the Mahvihra, Abhayagiri vihra and Jetavana.[8] The Mahvihra was the first tradition to be established, while Abhayagiri Vihra and Jetavana Vihra were established by monks who had broken away from the Mahvihra tradition.[8] According to A.K. Warder, the Indian Mahsaka sect also established itself in Sri Lanka alongside the Theravda, into which they were later absorbed.[8] Northern regions of Sri Lanka also seem to have been ceded to sects from India at certain times.[8]

When the Chinese monk Faxian visited the island in the early 5th century CE, he noted 5000 monks at Abhayagiri, 3000 monks at the Mahvihra, and 2000 monks at the Cetiyapabbatavihra.[10]

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