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Karmê Chöling Meditation Residency
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
Mudra Presentation & Practice Series, Talk 2 *
Intensification provides a clue to the meaning of being "wrathful," and becomes the basis of an engaged lifestyle that goes beyond mere mindfulness to achieve transformation.
ONLINE: Lucid Dream Yoga - The Path of Awakening Through Sleep and Dream
Lucid dreaming offers boundless potential for psychological and spiritual growth, and provides a unique 'night school' to explore the nature of mind and reality.
ONLINE: Dön Season Retreat *
Gathering during the Dön Season, a time when obstacles are particularly prevalent, is especially potent for Dorje Kasung because of our connection to the protection principle.
Mudra Presentation & Practice Series, Talks 3-5 *
This class will show that Mudra entails a new approach to contemplation, a new way of using speech, and a style of communication.
ONLINE: Shambhala Day
Save the Date! Join Karmê Chöling for our annual celebration of Losar, the Tibetan New Year.
Community News
- ‘Pacifying the Turmoil of the Mamos’ — a short Interview with Mark Nowakowski
In an interview with The Chronicles of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Mark Nowakowski — a member of the Nalanda Translation Committee — recalled a 1975 seminary talk by Rinpoche. In a section about slogan practice, Trungpa Rinpoche brought up the subject… Continue reading - Join KCL and Shambhala Online for talks and practice sessions about Dön Season
Dön season practices are a powerful way to purify negative energy and “clear the decks” ahead of Shambhala Day and the lunar new year. I think we can all agree there’s plenty of purifying to do! Beginning Monday, Feb. 1,… Continue reading - Understanding Dön Season
This article was borrowed from the Shambhala Times, where it first appeared on Feb. 2, 2017. It has been updated for 2021 to include the correct dates. When the world is filled with evil, pacify the Döns and Mamos by… Continue reading - Mudra in the Zoom Age: LIVE from the Rock, Jan. 27 at 7:30 p.m.
Zoey Moyle, a member of the Montpelier sangha (and currently Kasung Liaison at Karmê Chöling), will offer “Mudra Space Awareness in the Time of Zoom” on Jan. 27. Register here. Not for the faint of heart, Mudra is an active… Continue reading - From the Cradle of Loving Kindness
In the precious opportunity that is living in this place, on this vast great land, the walls between us are imaginary, and solid. What is happening in us, how we feel about who we are, doesn’t know architecture, or time…. Continue reading - Dharma.U Offers Deep Dive into Study and Practice
Karmê Chöling residents have had the profound opportunity to deepen their practice and dharma study as a community. We would nowlike to offer some of those same benefits to the wider mandala, as a series of directed, online study and… Continue reading - Unmasking the Three Lords of Materialism
March 20 – June 25: Dharma.U Cycle 1 “… In order to free those who suffer at the hands of the three lords of materialismAnd are afraid of external phenomena, which are their own projections, I take this vow in… Continue reading