2024-06-10T04:59:07-04:00 2023-12-31 990EZ 2023-01-01 853167871 DHARMADATTA COMMUNITY % DIANA FINNEGAN DHAR 8458264184 1108 Brown St Apt 9E Peekskill NY 10566 Susan Crowley Treasurer 2024-06-10 Susan Crowley XXX-XX-XXXX 2023 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z X X Dharmadatta.org X X 175453 X 175371 82 0 0 0 175453 4213 25961 176 59357 89707 85746 379323 465069 X 352296 445949 28080 17168 0 4064 380376 467181 1053 2112 379323 465069 Church of the Buddhist religion Residential Training of Buddhist nuns 0 44936 Religious retreats and instructions 0 22683 Religious services 0 0 67619 Ana Maria Caraballo Treasurer in 2023 30 8310 0 0 Dr Diana Finnegan President 30 4470 0 0 Dr Janet Gyatso Director 1 0 0 0 Dr Ariana Maki Secretary 2 0 0 0 false false false false false 0 false false false false Susan Crowley 265 Nebraska Valley Rd Stowe VT 05672 6178728231 false false false false false false false false false false NONE NONE true X 0 126590 126597 268094 175371 696652 0 126590 126597 268094 175371 696652 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 253180 253194 536188 350742 1393304 1393304 0 1 7 23 82 113 0 0 0 0 0 0 1393417 696765 0.9999 0 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Part I, line 16 | 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| Part II, line 24 | Explanation:, BOYAmount:, EOYAmount:| Prepaid Expenses, $0, $4064| Part II, line 26 | Explanation:, BOYAmount:, EOYAmount:| Accounts Payable, $1053, $2112| Part III, Line 28 | 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. Part III, Line 29 | 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. Part III, Line 30 | 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.