Situated on 300 acres of forest and meadow in Northern vermont, Milarepa Center offers programs based on traditional Tibetan Buddhist meditation practices.

Upcoming Programs

Weekend teaching/retreat: Commentary on Nagarjuna’s “Letter to a Friend”

Ven Geshe Tsulga | October 6-9 Columbus Day

The Maitreya Project Heart Shrine Relic Tour

October 27-29

Rare Buddhist Relics visit Milarepa Center - "May many receive their Blessings!" | more

September 2006

Milarepa has been involved with the State of Vermont in a logging project since 2000. This helps the center by maintaining a favorable property tax status and the environment by thinning out the forest and allowing the remaining trees to grow stronger and our views to be more accessible. We've also been able to receive a small revenue stream from the sale of logs over the past year. This money has increased somewhat recently as the project continues into all the phases. Our logger and neighbor has been very kind to Milarepa Center and maintained our roads, cut our firewood, and been downright neighborly the Vermont way.

Several years ago, at the Mitrupa Retreat, Lama Zopa Rinpoche shared his vision for Milarepa Center. He has asked us to build a larger retreat center that will accommodate 100 people with new Gompa and teachers’ accommodations. We are working with the community to become better known and to establish positive relationships so that when it is time to expand our center we will have a good working ties with our neighbors and community officials. Our logger will provide us with the wood for the framework of the new buildings and help us carve out the new roads necessary to reach our beautiful new Gompa.

My hope is to establish a building fund to get things started in the near future. We've been talking about this expansion for a long time and the time has come to act. I hope you will join us in this project, getting in on it from the beginning, and help Lama Zopa's vision become a reality.

The town of Barnet and Milarepa Center were recently hit by a tornado which destroyed lots of property in the area. Many trees were blown down on the Milarepa land. Following the storm, Lama Zopa offered this advice to help us think more positively about the destruction and in support of our logging efforts:

“Rinpoche talked about logging as a source of income at a Dharma Center and how from the Dharma perspective, it has tremendous benefit. OF course we don't cut all the trees, but are considerate in our selection. By doing this we are able to build statues, gompas, fund prayer wheels, etc. Because these things can help sentient beings create the cause for happiness. If sentient beings don't create the cause for happiness ie wisdom, compassion, ethics, concentration, then no matter how many beautiful trees there are, there is no happiness in the mind. So by using the money created by doing logging at a center we create long term benefit for sentient beings, liberation and enlightenment.”

July 2006

As you may have heard we have received the very sad news that Venerable Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche has been diagnosed with a large tumor in his liver.

For the latest updates on Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche's health please go to www.fpmt.org
Lama Zopa Rinpoche advised students to do certain practices for Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche's long life, good health and the immediate fulfillment of all his wishes.

Practices advised include:
• The King of Prayers
• Medicine Buddha mantra
• Vajrasattva mantra

To download The King of Prayers go to: http://www.fpmt.org (booklet form)
www.fpmt.org (reader form)

Medicine Buddha mantra
Long Mantra
OM NAMO BHAGAVATE BHEKHANDZYE / GURU BAIDURYA / PRABHA RADZAYA / TATHAGATAYA / ARHATE SAMYAKSAM BUDDHAYA / TADYATHA / OM BHEKHANDZYE BHEKHANDZYE MAHA BHEKHANDZYE BHEKHANDZYE / RADZA SAMUDGATE SVAHA
Short Mantra
TADYATHA / OM BHEKHANDZYE BHEKHANDZYE MAHA BHEKHANDZYE BHEKHANDZYE / RADZA SAMUDGATE SVAHA

Vajrasattva mantra
OM VAJRASATTVA SAMAYA MANUPALAYA, VAJRASATTVA DENOPA TITHA, DIDO ME BHAVA, SUTO KAYO ME BHAVA, SUPO KAYO ME BHAVA, ANURAKTO ME BHAVA, SARVA SIDDHI ME PRAYATSA, SARVA KARMA SU TSAME, TSITTAM SHRIYAM KURU HUM, HA HA HA HA HO, BHAGAVAN SARVA TATHAGATA, VAJRA MAME MUNTSA, VAJRA BHAVA MAHA SAMAYA SATTVA AH HUM PHET
Photos from Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche's 2005 visit to Milarepa and Kurukulla Centers can be found at: www.lamayeshe.com.

Bakula Arhat Statue Slideshow

February 2006

Click here to view milarepa_center's Bakula Arhat Statue slideshow.
(Note: A new window will open. The photos are housed on the flickr photo-sharing website.)
Find out more about the Bakula Arhat Project

Make donations to Milarepa online!

Dec 2005

At long last, you can make a one time donation or set up a monthly amount. Easy and secure with Paypal!