The Northeast Retreat Center
Our vision
The Northeast Retreat Center project emerged from the collective wishes of our regional sangha. Although present for quite some time, these wishes were formally expressed during our first regional vision meeting over the weekend of August 14, 2009 at our interim retreat center in Naugatuck, Connecticut. Read more »
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Center Spotlight: DWBC Albany
January 24, 2012:
This month, the NRC blog spotlights a center in the region—and we are excited to share more about Diamond Way Buddhist Center: Albany.
Inspiration From The Teacher
November 7, 2011:A few weeks back, the Northeast region was extremely lucky to host Khenpo Tsering for teachings in New York and Connecticut. Khenpo currently serves as the educational director of the Karmapa International Buddhist Institute in New Delhi and is the headmaster of the monks’ college Shri Diwakar Vihara Buddhist Institute in Kalimpong, India. For the past ten years, Khenpo has taught Buddhist philosophy at numerous centers throughout Southeast Asia, Europe, the U.S., and South America. We caught up with a few sangha members to see what quotes and teachings really inspired them. (more…)
New Center Opening in New York
May 2, 2011:New York has done it again! There are many reasons to celebrate and be happy today and any day in the Big Apple. For Buddhist friends, a top reason is that the Diamond Way center has relocated to a new space in Midtown Manhattan. With essentially no disruptions of the ongoing teaching and meditation schedule, a crew of dozens of enthusiastic friends has rapidly transferred the contents of the Chinatown center to the new space in a single joyful day.
NRC Presentation and Auction in Texas
January 6, 2011:The Thanksgiving Course in Texas was an amazing time with friends from all over the US, North and South America, Australia, and Europe. Lama Ole went into depth on the subject of meditation, and many new sangha members took refuge. We had a chance to present to the whole country our video about NRC progress, put together by friends from Toronto, New York, and Boston. See the video link below to catch up on the film.
Northeast activity spreads in Boston
October 12, 2010:The Diamond Way Group of Boston hosted teachings with Tasso Kallianiotis: “Meditation: everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask” and “Ngondro: The Four Preliminary Practices”, which developed into a lively Q&A. Friends from New York City and Connecticut traveled to take part and also to see the new Boston center, located in an enormous 7-room house built in 1870. In between lectures, the trampoline kept things interesting, and the group also spent some time exploring Boston, enjoying fresh fish and cannoli. Tasso was joined by his 33% larger family: Carlinde, Chris and intrepid Sophia, fresh from being born. Nice!
Khenpo Tsering gives teachings on Namshe Yeshe
September 21, 2010:
About 30 practitioners gathered from all around the region including New York City, Toronto, Connecticut, and Massachusetts to host Khenpo Tsering Samdrup at the interim Northeast Retreat Center this weekend.
8th Karmapa Retreat
July 11, 2010:What a blessing!!!
Three of us from the Chicago sangha had the great opportunity to spend the weekend (June 10-13) at the Interim Northeast Retreat Center in CT at an 8th Karmapa retreat. It was a wonderful 4-sessions of meditation a day plus Q&A with Tasso at night. Many yogis from New York joined us and we even had a hero from Boston who came to cook for us so we could just meditate. He was soon joined by a beautiful Argentinean dakini who came from NY for the same task. It was very touching. There were 17 of us in total.
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Northeast Sangha visit to the Heartland Retreat Center
June 16, 2010:On the weekend of May 22, the Heartland Retreat Center (HRC) hosted a group of eight Northeasterners for a weekend of teachings with Tasso and a fantastic national fundraiser for the NRC. A few of us from Boston and New York made a road-trip out of it, driving 24 hrs non-stop while sharing jokes, shoulders (as pillows) and powerfoods (mainly Skittles).
Tour Through Antiquity
April 9, 2010:March 28, 2010: The NRC scouting team spent Sunday forging deeper into beautiful Litchfield County, Connecticut searching for land suitable for our new retreat center. Tasso lost his eyeglasses but said he was still able to drive by “feel”, which was fun to watch, a certain pregnant woman walked the rugged land with the best of us, and Ben graciously (though unwittingly) hosted two friendly CT deer ticks for a couple days, all on another exploratory adventure into the Northeast.
11th Annual President’s Day Retreat
February 23, 2010:February 12-15: Over the weekend we had our 11th Annual Northeast President’s Day Retreat. After ten years at the Fresh Air Fund camps in Fishkill, NY, we set off for a new location: beautiful Incarnation Camp in Ivoryton, CT, which is in the vicinity of our Retreat land search.
