Jetsun Kushok will bestow two initiations at the Center on Saturday, September 24th. Schedule 10:00 am Medicine Buddha initiation 12:20 pm Lunch 2:00 pm Vajrasattva initiation Costs The Initiations: $150.00 Food & Lodging Meals $5.00 each Lodging: tents $18.00 per night; retreat room $60.00 per night
Special Announcement: Jetsun Kushok will be in residence at the center in September and will lead the Green Tara Puja Sunday morning September 25th at 10 AM. The puja is open to everyone. It is not necessary to be a Buddhist practitioner to attend. There is no charge. Donations to the center are always welcome. Please see the [...]
Friday Harbor, San Juan Island If you are driving to the island, you will be taking the ferry from Anacortes, WA, or Sidney, B.C. Detailed information on the ferry schedule will be included in your registration packet, along with directions for driving to the SKC gompa and please use the resources on this page [...]
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Her Eminence Sakya Jetsun Chimey Luding Rinpoche, the highest and most thoroughly trained female Buddhist teacher in the West, was born into the Drolma Podrang, or Tara Palace of the Sakya Khon family in 1938, the year of the earth tiger. She began her dharma studies at the age of five. His Holiness Sakya [...]
The Five Founders of the Sakya Order. center: Sachen Kunga Nyingpo; top left: Sonam Tsemo; top right: Drakpa Gyaltsen; lower left: Sakya Pandita; lower right: Chogyal Phagpa Sakya is one of the main traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. The Sakya tradition takes its name from the monastery founded in 1073 at Sakya (which [...]
