Featured Programs
Harmonizing with the Unconditional Love and Wisdom of our Buddha Nature
With John Makransky
From a Tibetan Buddhist perspective, our buddha nature (the source of our profound dignity) is the basic space of our being that is undivided from vast capacities of awareness, warmth, love, compassion and wisdom. These innate capacities are always available below our surface consciousness, but often hidden by our habits of thought and reaction. […]
Samye Institute Summer Immersion 2026
Explore Buddhism as a Way of Life Six- or three-week immersion at Samye New York, Cooperstown, New York Samye Institute invites you into a rare educational and spiritual journey, a place where you can step out of habitual life, re-center yourself, and immerse in the Buddhist Arts & Sciences through direct experience. You […]
Compassionately Caring: A Community Gathering on End-of-Life and Caregiving
With Tsunma Jamyang Donma, Andrea Sherman and Lori Solensten, MS
Join us for an experiential afternoon of insight, reflection, and connection—a nourishing space for caregivers of all kinds to gather, learn, and share. Whether you're supporting a loved one through illness, working in healthcare or hospice, or simply exploring how to care more deeply and wisely in daily life, this gathering offers tools, stories, and […]
Week Six: Noble Living, Noble Caring, Noble Dying: Healing Practices in Buddhism
With Tulku Migmar Tsering, Tsunma Jamyang Donma and Andrea Sherman
This final offering of the Samye Institute Summer Immersion: The Buddhist Arts & Sciences gathers the inner and outer sciences explored over the preceding weeks into an extended reflection on what it means to live, care, and die well. Drawing on the medicine teachings of Week Two, the contemplative training of the inner science weeks, […]
Summer Seminar 2026
With Phakchok Rinpoche
Awakening Dignity · Transformation · Realization We warmly welcome our local and international sangha to Phakchok Rinpoche’s annual Summer Seminar at Samye Hermitage New York in Cooperstown. This stand-alone week of teaching and practice marks the culminating seminar of the Samye Institute Summer Immersion, while remaining fully open and complete as an independent program […]