Welcome to Portland Insight Meditation Community's growing Dhamma library. We are a Buddhist spirituality, sangha and serious practitioner's library. All levels and lineages of practice are represented here, with a strong emphasis on the Thai Forest Tradition - Vipassana practice - Insight Meditation.

The items here have all been donated by us: the Parisa, this Dhamma community of PIMC. We have a prized place in our Center's 'Living Room', here at 6536 SE Duke St. which houses this collection; you can peruse all items online.

Our carefully selected collection of high quality items is organized into the 17 Categories below. 

  1. Meditation Practice And Techniques
  2. General Buddhism
  3. Theravada Tradition/Pali Canon
  4. Other Buddhist Traditions
  5. Other Religions and Mystic Traditions
  6. Psychology and Self-help
  7. Social, Political & Related History
  8. Miscellaneous Non-Fiction
  9. Fiction, Poetry, Beat literature
  10. Reference Materials (no circulation)
  11. Periodicals
  12. Audio Tapes
  13. Video Tapes
  14. Audio CDs
  15. DVDs
  16. Misc. A/V Materials
  17. Young Person's Section
Clicking on the tabs below will give you a list of the library's contents, so that you can quickly pick them up during our open-hours (see below).  Here is verbal leverage to cleave your mind and give instructions for discovering Buddha's radical teaching of liberation for living a life of full participation in the world.

Suggested classics - A Path With Heart, Still Here, What The Buddha Taught and Insight Meditation.

Library Hours - Open one half hour before and after meditation periods, Thursday and Sunday.

Check Out - Write your name, phone number or email address, and a due date of ONE MONTH hence on the Item's card.  For tapes and smaller items that do not have cards, find a blank card in the desk's top drawer,
write in the above info plus the item's PIMC number.  Put the card in the card box on the desk.

Returns - 24/7, we have a posted drop box OUTSIDE, on the wooden fence to the 66th St. Side (east),     the black box is labeled: "Barking Dog Library."

Please visit and enjoy this library.  

Any questions or suggstions may be directed to Had Walmer at hwalmer@gmail.com

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