Shambhala International

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.

Selected Teachings by Acharya Ani Pema Chödrön
A site with selected teachings from public programs on tonglen, meditation, maitri, and Bodhicitta.

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.