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Karmê Chöling Meditation Community
Karme Choling is a residential meditation community founded by Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. It’s both a residence for meditation practitioners and a center that offers Shambhala Buddhist programs, QiGong instruction, Mudra Space Awareness, and Kyudo, or Japanese Archery.
Living in a meditation community offers the camaraderie and support needed to deepen our practice and progress along our spiritual path as good human beings.
Nestled in the beautiful green mountains of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, with a one-acre organic garden that teaches regenerative farming techniques, Karmê Chöling is part of the global community of Shambhala, dedicated to awakening our human hearts with kindness, bravery, and genuine dialogue.
Featured Programs
HYBRID: Weekend Program: The Trekcho Instructions of Yeshe Tsogyal *
This weekend retreat is open to all tantrikas who have attended Vajrayana Seminary or Sacred World Assembly, regardless of your current practice.
HYBRID Weekthun: Meeting the Great Queen, Our Own Innate Wisdom
This program is available both On-Land and ONLINE. This weekthun is based on the lore of dakini stories, and will have a Mahamudra track for tantrikas, and a non-tantrika track for mindfulness-awareness practice.
Zoomless Half Dathun
Join the Karme Choling Household for two weeks of Zoom-free meditation in the Main Shrine Room. Participants will settle into the household two weeks before the half-dathun begins to integrate into the community.
Bringing Emotions to the Path
Monday night series: Learn to work with heavy-handed emotions, or kleshas, which are a key part of the origin of suffering.
Shambhala Day: Year of the Water Tiger
Join the Karmê Chöling and St. Johnsbury Community in celebrating Shambhala Day 2022, Year of the Water Tiger.
Community News
- Richard John: The Trekchö Instructions of Yeshe Tsogyal
Dec. 10 – 12 | ‘Cutting Through to Primordial Purity’ In the eighth century, Vajrayogini appeared to Yeshe Tsogyal in a vision and transmitted pith instructions for practicing Trekcho, known as “cutting through to primordial purity.” This profound but… Continue reading - Dakini Weekthün, with Judith Simmer-Brown
Weekthun: Meeting the Great Queen, Our Own Innate Wisdom — Jan. 7-15 Acharya Judith Simmer-Brown will draw on earthy and intuitive transmissions from dakinis of the lineage, who appear in visions and dreams, to guide our meditation during this week-long… Continue reading - Wanted: Lead Cook to Scramble, Stir and Roast for Hungry Meditators
SEEKING LEAD COOK: The kitchen is the sizzling, egg-cracking, aromatic heart of Karmê Chöling, a meditation center in the forest of northern Vermont. And as luck would have it, we’re looking for a cheerful Lead Cook like you to join… Continue reading - Audio Clip: Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche on ‘The Mother of All the Buddhas’In the 1970s, the Vidyadhara Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche offered two teachings — one on Feminine Principle, held a short walk from Karmê Chöling, and the other on EVAM, offered in Boulder, Colo. Beginning Nov. 15 and continuing each Monday… Continue reading
- The Feminine Principle at Work | Ella Reznikova
I remember the very first time I came to Karmê Chöling to attend a dathün, a 28-day group retreat. Before the dathün began, I was sitting in the Lower Living Room, and I felt like I was falling in love… Continue reading - A Lesson in Floating in Space: Vidyadhara, Feminine Principle and Evam
Bill Brauer and Ella Reznikova lead book group on groundbreaking teachings by Trungpa Rinpoche Nov. 15 – Dec. 13 In his 1975 seminar on the feminine principle, Chögyam Trungpa Ripoche said, “By trying to have little goodies and words of… Continue reading - Think About It
An anonymous 30-day solitary retreatant wrote some poetry on retreat. Here’s a sample. Think About It We cannot control what happens in our lives, only our response. We cannot control change,only our thoughts about it. We cannot control old age, illness… Continue reading