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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
Zoomless Half Dathun: Practicing Kindness
Join the Karme Choling Household for two weeks of Zoom-free meditation in the Main Shrine Room featuring daily practice of the Sadhana of Kindness, as well as study and contemplation of the Four Reminders.
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.
The Sadhana of Nonmeditation - A Practice of No Activity: An Ati Terma Sadhana of Avalokiteshvara *
The ati terma sadhana of Avalokiteshvara is one of the heart treasures of the Vidyadhara Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, which he discovered in Tibet before leaving for the West in 1959.
The Play of the Great Secret Dakini - An Ati Terma Sadhana of Krodhikali, the Black Wrathful Lady *
The ati terma sadhana of Krodhikali is one of the heart treasures of the Vidyadhara Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, which he discovered in Tibet before leaving for the West in 1959.
Community News
- This World of Water, Rocks, Trees, Sky and Earth
by Alley Smith It is a sacred act to pay respect to the spirits of our land at Karmê Chöling. We rest in a soothing afterglow of the great Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. His presence never leaves this place and… Continue reading - 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