Welcome Jackal.
If you wish to post about Buddhism, there is a religion board here and a spiritual wisdom one too!
Glad to see you here.
We were just in a Tibetan Buddhist retreat center recently, by the way, in Arizona called "The Garchen Institute". It was wonderful and was my third time there. I always leave there with a sense of peace and stillness inside me. Here is the website of the place we were at.
http://www.garchen.net/about.html