Situated on 300 acres of forest and meadow in Northern vermont, Milarepa Center offers programs based on traditional Tibetan Buddhist meditation practices.
Upcoming Programs
2008 Summer Program Schedule
Venerable Tenzin Chogkyi will teach “How Karma Works” on July 18-20 and “Change Your Mind, Change Your Life” Mind Training on July 25-27.
The Very Venerable Choden Rinpoche will teach at Milarepa Center on the weekend of August 1-3. Rinpoche will be teaching the 7 Point Mind Training text, a mind training (lojong) teaching, and giving a Medicine Buddha Empowerment and oral transmission of the Manjushri name mantra.
Buddha Camp, our annual childrens camp will be happening again this year August 8-10. The Camp will be run once again by Venerable Tsunmala from our sister center, Kurukulla Center in Boston and Kasia Beznoska, with Venerable Geshe Ngawang to teach and play with the kids that weekend as well.
Our precious Venerable Geshe Tsulga will lead the Highest Yoga Tantra retreat of Solitary Yamantaka from August 15 – September 7.
Please contact Dahmay Shiday for more information or to register at dahmay@milarepacenter.org or 707-362-0701.
News
7 December 2007
Milarepa Center Director Change
With simultaneous sadness and joy, we announce a change in Milarepa Center directors. Wendy Hobbs has resigned and Lama Zopa Rinpoche has appointed Dahmay Shiday to be the new director. Wendy has served selflessly now for 3 years and helped the center continue to grow. During her time, we saw Kyongla Rato Rinpoche, Choden Rinpoche, Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche, Geshe Tsulga, Khen Rinpoche Tegchok, and other amazing beings bless the Milarepa Ctr sangha with their teachings. Continued progress was made on the stupa and it is near completion. Wendy established insurance for the center, purchased a new Center vehicle, installed a new heating system, a new roof was installed, and numerous other valuable improvements on the center buildings were made. But most of all, people feel welcome and warm when they spend time at Milarepa Center. With intense gratitude, we offer our thanks to Wendy for all her hard work. May her life be blessed and full of virtue.
Dahmay Shiday was the assistant director for the first year of Wendy’s directorship and returns to the community upon the advice of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. He has spent most of the last 10 years in FPMT centers offering service. With continued efforts to bring the most amazing Gelugpa Lamas and Teachings to Milarepa Ctr, he will also work on the future plans for growth and expansion.
Let’s all rejoice in their efforts to help our wonderful community. Stay tuned and look forward to a wonderful program in the summer of 2008.
12 September 2007
Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche Visits Milarepa Center
In a whirlwind of enlightened activity, Milarepa Center was blessed by a 19 hour visit from our Precious Teacher Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche.
Rinpoche has asked the Center as a collective to:
-Recite the Holy Sanghatta Sutra 7 times
-Write out the Holy Sanghatta Sutra 5 times
-Perform Milarepa Tsok on the Tibetan 25th of every month
-Build a life size Guru Rinpoche statue
-Build a large Prayer Wheel
Now comes how YOU can help.
26 June 2007
Bakula Arhat Statue is Filled!
“Now Bakula is very happy!” Venerable Geshe Tsulga
We are happy to report that our wonderful Bakula Arhat statue is properly filled and consecrated. We now move on to working towards building Bakula’s new home.
11 May 2007
Vision to Reality
Several years ago, at the Mitrupa Retreat, Lama Zopa Rinpoche shared his vision for Milarepa Center. He has asked us to build a larger retreat center that will accommodate 100-200 people with new Gompa and teachers’ accommodations. We are working with the community to become better known and to establish positive relationships so that when it is time to expand our center we will have a good working ties with our neighbors and community officials. Our logger will provide us with the wood for the framework of the new buildings and help us carve out the new roads necessary to reach our beautiful new Gompa.
7 October 2006
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