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Visualizing Sopa Choling – HIGHLIGHT
This is the fifth and final article in a series on Sopa Choling and the three-year retreat experience. In this photographic essay, Laura Kaufman has selected images that celebrate Sopa Choling and highlight the place, with its changing moods throughout the seasons, and some of the ... continuePosted February 1, 2011 by
Life, Death & Three-year Retreat – HIGHLIGHT
This is the fourth article in a series on Sopa Choling and the three-year retreat experience. Sharon Keegan shares how personal experiences of impermanence led her into a three-year retreat, and guided her activity in the world when she emerged. Be sure to read the ... continuePosted January 30, 2011 by
Discovering Enlightened Society at Sopa Choling – HIGHLIGHT
This is the third article in a series on Sopa Choling and the three-year retreat experience. Shastri Chuck Whetsell describes his experience of discovering enlightened society, slogan by slogan, during his three-year retreat at Sopa Choling. Be sure to read the fourth article and click ... continuePosted January 28, 2011 by
Following a Path of Practice – HIGHLIGHT
This is the second article in a series on Sopa Choling and the three-year retreat experience. As Lelia Calder discovered, on the path of practice a three-year retreat may be the next step, however surprising or daunting it may seem. She shares how she arrived at the ... continuePosted January 26, 2011 by
A Three-year Retreat for Our Mandala – HIGHLIGHT
This is the first article in a series on Sopa Choling and the three-year retreat experience. On July 15, 2010, Acharya Larry Mermelstein presided at the gate-opening ceremony celebrating the completion of a full retreat cycle at Sopa Choling, the three-year retreat center located at ... continuePosted January 24, 2011 by