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Donations are our main source of support, so every offering is greatly appreciated. Your contribution helps us to keep the monastery open to receive guests throughout the year.
DonateEach year we offer a variety of events and retreats during which we welcome visitors to come together in the great hidden mountain of Deer Park.
We welcome visitors for Days of Mindfulness and Special Retreats, as well as one or two week General Practice Retreats. All events and retreats require advance registration.
Enjoy a day of mindfulness and peace at Deer Park. On most Sundays we host an in-person day for adults and families, including kids, from 9AM - 2PM. Space is limited and these events do fill up. Advance registration is required.
View Events CalendarWe host a variety of Special Retreats at Deer Park and beyond, including the Family Retreat, Wake Up Retreat (ages 18-35), The Buddha the Scientist Retreat & Symposium, BIPOC Retreat, Holiday Retreat, and more. See our Events Calendar for upcoming Special Retreats.
View Events CalendarEnjoy the daily schedule of the monastery and the basic practices such as sitting meditation, walking meditation, and mindful eating. During the retreat period, you spend each day following the schedule of the resident monastics and lay community.
Learn MoreTaking place from late October to late January, this sacred period — deeply rooted in an ancient practice tradition which dates back to the time of the Buddha — offers an opportunity to dwell peacefully at Deer Park Monastery while nurturing your mind and spirit.
Learn MoreAt this annual summer event, teens practice as a family with our monastic and lay residents, learning to be truly alive and empowering the people around them to do the same. They learn skills to help them embrace and transform strong feelings of fear, anger, and despair, and to be happy, healthy, and free.
Learn MoreBefore, during, and after some Special Retreats, we need additional help, so we invite mindfulness practitioners who have already attended a 7-day retreat (or longer) at Deer Park to apply for the volunteer program on an as-needed basis.
Learn MoreWe welcome you to join us for this day of practice.
Mindful Walking and Hiking Zen Book Signing with Brother Phap Luu at Barnes & Noble in Escondido, CA
Join Deer Park Monastics in Alaska for the "Peace is Every Step" Mindfulness Retreat, in partnership with Floating Leaf Sangha.
We welcome you to join us for this day of practice.
We welcome you to join us for this day of practice.
From time to time we offer multi-week courses related to mindfulness, the teachings and life of Thich Nhat Hanh, and a variety of similar subjects. Please see our schedule of upcoming courses.
Take the Deer Park Monastery and Plum Village community with you wherever you go. The Plum Village app is designed to cultivate mindfulness, compassion, and joy through guided meditations, deep relaxations, practice poems, bells of mindfulness, and other practices — all through a mobile device.