Secular Buddhism Timeline
1976 Insight Meditation Center established – focusing on vipassana meditation in a secular context
1976 S.N. Goenka establishes his first Meditation Centre – focused on his non-sectarian approach to vipassana meditation
1983 Gaia House established – focused on vipassana meditation in a non-sectarian context
1991 Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness – a book by Jon Kabat-Zinn in which he describes a vipassana-based practice to help alleviate stress – with little or no Buddhist references
Oct 2005 The Secular Buddha – two talks by Stephen Batchelor at NY Insight Meditation Centre
May 2009 The Secular Buddhist (podcast by Ted Meissner) launches
Apr 2011 Secularbuddhism.org.nz – launched in New Zealand
Aug 2012 Coming Out as a Secular Buddhist & A Secular Buddhism – essays by Stephen Batchelor
2012 Agents of Uncertainty – book by JD arguing for links between scepticism and Buddhism
Oct 2012 Secular Buddhist Association started
Oct 2016 Exeter Meditation Circle started
2016/2017 Bodhi College – ‘Secular Dharma’ courses begin online & via retreats
2017 Secular Buddhism: Imagining the Dharma in an Uncertain World – book by Stephen Batchelor
2018 Secular Buddhist Network established (as far as I can ascertain)
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