Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Drala Mountain Center (DMC) is a 501c3 educational non-profit originally founded in 2000 as the Shambhala Mountain Center, with the name changing to DMC in 2022. [1] It operates a spiritual retreat center located on 600 acres in a valley in the northern Colorado Rocky Mountains. [2]
Recently renamed the Drala Mountain Center, the former Shambhala Mountain Center near Red Feather Lakes is seeking to restructure its outstanding debt.
It also supports several retreat centers and other organizations. Below is a partial list of notable organizations affiliated with or managed within Shambhala International: Dechen Chöling (retreat center in Limoges, France) Gampo Abbey (monastery in Nova Scotia) Karmê Chöling (retreat center in Barnet, Vermont, United States)
The Great Stupa of Dharmakaya Which Liberates Upon Seeing is located at Drala Mountain Center in Colorado, USA. It was built to inter the ashes of Chogyam Trungpa, who died in 1987. In many Buddhist traditions it is common to build a stupa to honour a respected teacher after their death.
1970: Arrives in Canada before visiting Vermont, California, and Colorado. Establishes Tail of the Tiger, a Buddhist meditation and study center in Vermont, now named Karmê Chöling. Establishes Karma Dzong, a Buddhist community in Boulder, Colorado [134] (now known as Boulder Shambhala Center). [1] 1971: Begins teaching at University of Colorado.
When he began teaching at University of Colorado Boulder in 1971, a second branch of the community began to form there. When Vajradhatu was incorporated in Colorado in 1973, it consolidated Tail of the Tiger, Rocky Mountain Dharma Center, a retreat facility in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado; and Karma Dzong, an urban meditation center in Boulder.
Ray first encountered his main Buddhist teacher, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, in 1970, and studied with him until Rinpoche's death in 1987.In 1974, at the invitation of Trungpa Rinpoche, Ray left a tenure-track position at Indiana University and relocated to Boulder, Colorado—then the center of Trungpa Rinpoche's community–to become the first full-time faculty member and chair of the ...
Trungpa appointed Chödrön director of the Boulder Shambhala Center (Boulder Dharmadhatu) in Colorado in the early 1980s. [10] Chödrön moved to Gampo Abbey in 1984, the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery in North America for Western men and women, and became its first director in 1986. [4]