The best way to preserve a culture is by having a cultural center. Our Lhakang project is designed to accomplish this. At the heart of the center is the Temple with its shrine room, rooms for visitor activities, Monk and Nun quarters and festival courtyard. Additional structures include training facilities, workshop areas for ancient crafts and traditional living projects. We even have an herbal pharmacy! Food is provided via several bio-domes with vertical growing towers and hydroponics/aeroponics growing systems.

We also will have retreat facilities for both short term and long term student retreats.
About Our Journey

Throughout the year we offer teachings and empowerments. most of these are single or two day events, some are longer (7 days to 45 days), depending on the empowerment and the complexity of its teachings. Some include hands on workshops like mala making or casting and activating your own phurba. Some are simple teachings where you take notes, learn mantras or other common Bön things. Some make traditional jewelry, traditional fabric craft, some use string, some are carving or statue making. We have a wide range of things to teach and do in our center.

We have three precious elements to Bön. The first is a qualified and enlightened teacher.
The second is unbroken lineage teachings.
The third is a family of practitioners that are all working to achieve the highest level of enlightenment they can in this lifetime.

They practice together, share meals, attend festivals, engage in traditional crafts and culture and generally learn the Bön way of living. Then they can easily take that back into the world of chaos and the non-spiritual. Affectionately named “Muggle Land”.

Every non-profit organization runs on volunteers. We rely on several kinds of volunteers:

– On site volunteers
– Remote volunteers
– Volunteers working on ordination
– Special Services volunteers

Contact our volunteer coordinator or our staff to find out how you can be part of this!
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Donations:
– goods
– services
– time
– money
– items (big or small, technical or basic)
– consumables
– gift cards

This is what we are doing for events, festivals and fundraisers. This year we have some very exciting things in the works!
– Silk Road Revival Gala (connecting spiritually responsible businesses together to form supply chains inside the New Silk Road network.
– Summer Retreat
– Empowerments and teachings
– Skills workshops and retreats
– Meditation programs
– Tibetan Bön Healing clinics