Shambhala
is an international community of meditation centers
led by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. Free meditation instruction
is available at all of our 140 centers world wide, as
well as a wide variety of classes and programs in meditation,
Buddhist teachings and many other disciplines.
Shambhala
Mountain Centre Shambhala
Mountain Center is a mountain valley retreat located
on 600 acres in northern
Colorado outside Boulder. Since 1971 Shambhala Mountain
Center has offered hundreds of programs on Buddhist
meditation, yoga and other contemplative disciplines.
Tamed by thirty years of use as a contemplative retreat
center, SMC is a place where one of the basic truths
of Buddhism—that people can be profoundly open
to the wisdom of the present moment—is always readily
available.
Karme
Choling Karmê
Chöling, (Tail of the Tiger)is a Buddhist meditation
center in northern Vermont, located on 540 acres of
meadows and woodlands. It was founded in 1970 by the
Venerable Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche. The center
emphasizes meditation practice based on Shambhala Buddhist
teachings, and offers year-round programs and retreats.
Dechen
Chöling Dechen
Chöling, located near Limoges in France, was founded
in 1994 by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. Dechen Chöling,
(The Dharma Place of Great Bliss), serves as a practice
centre for Shambhala community members as well as for
any who wish to further their spiritual path. The facility
consists of a chateau and charming outbuildings surrounded
by pastures, stately trees and woodlands.
Dorje
Khyung Dzong Dorje Khyung Dzong (Indestructible Garuda Fortress)
was founded in 1972 as a retreat center in southern
Colorado on teh slope of Greenhorn Mountains. True to
the original inspiration, DKD remains a place of retreat
for all levels of Buddhist and Shambhala practitioners.
Seven secluded retreat cabins are situated on Mount
Greenhorn, perched at 8,500 ft, overlooking the rugged
mountains of the Sangre de Cristo Range and the unspoiled
Huerfano River Valley, providing an ideal environment
for solitary retreat.
Dorje Denma
Ling
Dorje Denma Ling is located at The Falls, in the Cobequid
Mountains of Nova Scotia, one and one-half hours drive
northwest of the city of Halifax. It consists of nearly
400 acres of meadowland and forest overlooking the Northumberland
Strait near the village of Tatamagouche, where you will
find such amenities as a drugstore, laundromat, grocery
stores and a hospital. It is close to sandy beaches
and the beautiful falls from which the area derives
its name.
The
Shambhala Sun
Inspired by the wisdom and compassion of Buddhist practice,
the Shambhala Sun a bimonthly magazine, is devoted to
the principle that true human wisdom is not the property
of any one religion or culture. Beyond distinctions of
secular and sacred, the Shambhala Sun is the place where
ancient wisdom shares the stage with some of today's finest
teachers and writers. The Shambhala Sun now includes a
number of Acharya Ani Pema Chodorn's teachings on
their
website.
The Nitartha
Institute
Nitartha Institute preserves a 1,200 year old Tibetan
Buddhist tradition of analytical meditation, contemplative
study, and dharma conversation and debate. The
Institute is modeled on the Tibetan tradition of monastic
colleges, or shedra, which combine Buddhist scholarship
and practice in an atmosphere of lively dialogue. It provides
a unique combination of in-depth teaching, study, and
analytical meditation to give Westerners a sound basis
for understanding Vajrayana, Mahamudra, and Dzogchen schools
of Tibetan Buddhism. Through the transmission of teachings
and translations of key texts and their commentaries,
the Institute is helping to transplant this ancient oral
and philosophical tradition to the ground of the West.
