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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

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

About Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is the area where the teacher Tara Brach founded the Insight Meditation Community of Washington in 1998, one of the larger Western vipassanā (insight meditation) communities, drawing on the Theravāda-derived insight tradition.

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