Group Retreats

Begin the year with a week of focused practice in the ngöndro, the foundational practices of the Vajrayana path. Following the guidance of Phakchok Rinpoche, these practices are understood as the Foundations of Realization—the essential preparation for entering the Vajrayana, the Path of Realization.   This retreat will be a practice immersion, offering extended sessions […]

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.   […]

Experience Buddhism as a Living, Holistic Path   The Samye Institute Summer Immersion (SISI) invites students of all backgrounds to explore Buddhism as a living, integrated way of life.   Over the course of six weeks, participants engage with both the inner sciences of Buddhist philosophy, meditation, and ethics, and the outer arts and sciences—logic […]