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

February 2 - March 4, 2023

(Online Study) Melting the Ice and Getting Unstuck: 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva

with Mathias Pongracz

In a world where nothing seems to work anymore, it's easy to be overcome by helplessness. The Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva points offers a path of the heart to help us work for the benefit of others in even the most challenging times.

Community News

• Haiku: Artistic expression created out of contemplative practice
  Why do spiritual practitioners and followers of the arts alike turn to the ancient practice of haiku?“The form and style of contemplative haiku appeals to those interested in a Dharma art or contemplative practice as a way for personal enrichment… Continue reading
• Weapons of Compassion
    Compassion for Ukraine “When the war in Ukraine started, we immediately gathered our community online to do the practice of tonglen,” says Ella Reznikova, one of Karmê Chöling’s meditation teachers and a native Ukrainian. This online meditation and tonglen… Continue reading
• Does being true to ‘the spirit of the holidays’ mean opting out of tradition?
  As we enter another holiday season, more and more people are turning away from consumerism, and toward their meditation practice Choosing introspection instead of over-extension The holidays used to be a time of introspection and celebration within a community, a… Continue reading
• Grounding in the Path of Dharma
  Grounding in the Path of Dharma is a four day course developed especially for those meditation practitioners who are committed to their practice, but are struggling with the real-life dilemma of making that commitment fit into their day-to-day living. This… Continue reading
• Being a Student of Anyen Rinpoche
  By Cody Mekelburg I learned of Anyen Rinpoche in 2012 through some friends while living at (then) Shambhala Mountain Center and read his books The Union of Dzogchen and Bodhichitta, as well as Dying with Confidence. I was immediately attracted… Continue reading
• Dr. Eva Wong offers a lineage of wisdom at Taoist Program this fall
  Dr. Eva Wong integrates qigong, meditation and Taoist philosophy in program for new and returning students No matter where she goes, Dr. Eva Wong carries a thousand-year-old Taoist lineage with her. And when she arrives at Karmê Chöling this fall,… Continue reading
• Betsy Railla Shares her Experience of Solitary Retreat