Group Retreats

This Spring Meditation Retreat offers a clear and well-structured opportunity to return to meditation practice as it is taught within a living lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, under the guidance of Phakchok Rinpoche. The retreat emphasizes steady, foundational practice—beginning with settling the body and mind and cultivating familiarity with awareness. Rather than focusing on intensity or […]

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.   […]

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 […]

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 for […]