A Dharma centre is a non-monastic Buddhist centre in a community.
According to the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, they preserve and spread the teachings of Buddhism and may have lay residents. According to the New Kadampa Tradition, Dharma centres provide the focus of a local Buddhist community and provide facilities for study, practice and living by moral precepts.
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“To make our idea of morality centre on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)