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It was initially established in 1997 as the Godstow Retreat Center by Geshe Michael Roach, with whom it is no longer affiliated due to the behavior of Roach. When Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Jampa came to the center as Spiritual Director in 2006, the name was changed to Do Ngak Kunphen Ling, which roughly translated from Tibetan means ...
The name is a corruption of Tasajera, a Spanish-American word derived from an indigenous Esselen word, which means "place where meat is hung to dry". [4] [5]The 126-acre mountain property surrounding the Tassajara Hot Springs was purchased by the San Francisco Zen Center in 1967 for the below-market price [6] of $300,000 [5] from Robert and Anna Beck. [7]
Furnace Mountain (temple name Kwan Se Um San Ji Sah) is an American Zen Buddhist retreat center in Clay City, Kentucky, co-founded in 1986 by Seung Sahn Soen Sa Nim and Dae Gak Soen Sa Nim as part of the international Kwan Um School of Zen; it is now unaffiliated with the school in an official capacity. In 1990 the main Meditation Hall was ...
Meditation Room at Esalen Esalen Art Barn, 2005. The Esalen Institute, commonly called Esalen, is a non-profit American retreat center and intentional community in Big Sur, California, which focuses on humanistic alternative education. [2]
In addition to meditation retreats, offerings include classes and workshops on the Japanese tea ceremony and gardening. [2] While Green Gulch Farm has a residential monastery and retreat center, guest house, and conference center, [3] it has also become recognized as a place where organic farmers can come to learn the tools of their trade. [4]
Persons coming for their own meditative practice or for general recreation are also welcomed. The retreat center, in operation since 1981, was closed by fire on September 7, 2020. When operational, the center had access to hot spring-fed pools and tubs, steam sauna, meals, and staff-facilitated programming.
Lerab Ling is a Tibetan Buddhist centre founded in 1992 by Sogyal Rinpoche in Roqueredonde, near Lodève in Occitanie, France. It contains perhaps the largest Tibetan Buddhist temple in Europe, [ 1 ] which was officially inaugurated by the Dalai Lama in 2008 at a ceremony attended by Carla Bruni-Sarkozy .
The staff there offers meditation programs and retreats in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition to hundreds of students each year. Karmê Chöling facilities include 717 acres (2.9 km2) of wooded land, seven meditation halls, a Zen archery range, an organic garden, dining facilities, single and double rooms, dormitory housing, and seven retreat cabins.