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Every Thursday Online via Zoom 8:00 am – 8:45 am PST     Weekly on Thursdays—We join the Global Mani Mantra Retreat from May 17 – November 1! Join us each Thursday morning through November 1 as the North American Region participates in the FPMT Global Mani Retreat with a short, powerful 45-minute collective practice. […]

Monday – Friday 6:30 am – 7:00 am PDT Online Only via Zoom   Start the day at 6:30 am Pacific Time with guided meditations every weekday. "Meditation is the way we realize the nature of the mind. Therefore it’s something that we absolutely have to do. Since Western education does not explain how the […]

Monday – Friday 8:00 pm – 8:30 pm PDT Online Only via Zoom End the day with a purification practice, the Four Opponent Powers. Please try to join this class no later than 8:00 pm. “There are so many problems in the world—what should we do? Doing Vajrasattva practice is the answer; doing purification is […]

Sundays 9:00 am – 10:00 am   These guided meditations bring together a refreshing and precious combination of simplicity, depth, and accessibility. These weekly, hour-long sessions are of great relevance and value to long-term Buddhist practitioners as well as to complete newcomers to the Buddhist path. No doubt this is partly thanks to the wisdom, […]

In-Depth Meditation Training: Year 4, The Vajra Ground: Mahāmudrā and Kriyā Tantra September 5 – November 28 In this culminating fourth year of our journey, our path turns inward to the mind itself—its empty, luminous nature—and outward to the transformative methods of tantra, where the naturally pure nature of our perception is recognized as the […]

Saturday, September 12 – Sunday, September 13 10:30 am – 12:30 pm, 2:00 pm – 4:00pm In Person in the Gompa and Online via Zoom Weekend Retreat Part of the Three Week Teaching series Segyü Khen Rinpoche Lobsang Wangdu Join us for a rare opportunity to receive teachings on The Sixteen Human Dharmas, the classic […]

Wednesday, September 16 – Wednesday, September 23 In Person in the Gompa 7-Day Retreat   Part of the Three Week Teaching series Segyü Khen Rinpoche Lobsang Wangdu We warmly invite you to join us for this rare and precious opportunity to receive teachings on White Tara and Lama Tsong Khapa’s Three Principal Paths. The retreat […]

Wednesday September 16 – September 23 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Part of the Three Week Teaching series Segyü Khen Rinpoche Lobsang Wangdu We warmly invite you to join us for this precious opportunity to receive teachings from the highly respected Segyü Khen Rinpoche Lobsang Wangdü on The Three Principal Aspects of the Path, one […]

Ngondro Lamrim Training (NLRT) A Two-Year Journey in the Common and Uncommon Preliminary Practices, an excellent preparation for the FPMT In-Depth Meditation Training (IDMT) Introduction The Lamrim — "Stages of the Path" in Tibetan — is a systematic presentation of the entire Buddhist path to Awakening, written by the great Tibetan master Je Tsongkhapa in […]

Wednesday, September 30 In Person Only in the Meadow 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm   Sound healing is a sacred and powerful meditative practice. Different vibrational frequencies are said to resonate with different facets of the human energy field helping to clear blockages, soothe our overtaxed nervous systems, and aid in the release and expression […]

Saturdays: October 3, October 10, October 17, October 24 In-Person and online via Zoom 10:00 am - 12:00 noon This series of 4 classes leads us along a journey of reflection, discussion, and practical application for our everyday lives as parents. We follow the framework developed over 35 years at Tara Redwood School, the model […]

We carry more burden than we know. The habits of the mind, the weight of past actions, the fears that surface when we sit in stillness — most of us spend a lifetime working around them. This retreat invites us to work with them instead.   This weekend retreat offers a rare opportunity to look […]

Led by Geshe Tenzin Legtsok Friday – Sunday, November 27 – 29 In-Person in the Gompa and Online via Zoom Join us for a weekend retreat exploring the Heart Sutra, one of Buddhism’s most profound and celebrated teachings on the nature of reality. “Form is emptiness; emptiness is form.” Emptiness can sound abstract—or even like […]