Slovak weekend (weekend hosted by the Slovak sangha)
Registration open!
Welcome to the second of our country weekends, the weekend hosted by the Slovak sangha. The little big sangha invites everybody to enjoy big hearts, big laugh and big magic. We are looking forward to meet many of you, make new friends and strengthen old friendships.
ABOUT COUNTRY WEEKENDS
The idea of country weekends is that the hosting country or region organizes the whole weekend at the EC for other international friends and their sangha. They organize the program however they wish, (e.g. invite your own international traveling teachers, or plan outside activities like skiing, climbing etc.). It includes all the ...
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Posted on February 1st, 2010. | In category: Courses, Events, Latest News
Dear friends,
here is some latest information about arrival for those who come:
SHUTTLE & PARKING (+49 176 37183410)
Arriving by car
Due to the weather and number of people registered, we ask that you park at the Froschweiher car park (the last car park before the EC, by the lake) and we will provide a shuttle service from there. We do not advise anyone to drive up the EC road at the moment, but in case you decide to here's some advice from our experience: you must have good winter tires. Unless you come with a four wheel drive car we also strongly recommend that you have snow chains, ...
For the 3rd Transmission weekend, many friends and traveling teachers from centers from around the world were invited (see the list bellow). They will share the experience and knowledge they have gained in the last 30 years of building and living in the first Diamond Way Buddhist centers.
We hope that this weekend will give us all new ideas, solutions and inspiration how to deal with the many different topics that come up when founding and running our centers. 
Initiation change: Due to the many concerns raised regarding the Red Wisdom initiation and related damtsig, Sherab Gyaltsen Rinpoche will now give a Karma Pakshi initation (date to be confirmed), without any connected damtsig.
For further information, (including an explanation for the initiation change from Lama Ole), to register (please take the time to do so) and information about how to help on the course, please go to 
The EC is essentially a place of transmission where people come to inspire and motivate each other and pass on experience of how Dharma spread in the West and how our centers around the world function and have functioned in the past. A great medium for that are weekends where we invite experienced teachers and friends to share not only Dharma and common
practices but also their experiences from times when the rest of us had not yet been in our centers.
The 3 such Transmission weekends that we plan for the autumn 2009 and spring 2010 are:
We are happy to announce that the 8th Karmapa retreat website is now live at: 
Shamar Rinpoche will give a Mahamudra course at the EC Summer Course starting on Friday 14.8.9 at 10:00am, however we wish to tell you of a program change we think you will be very happy about. Shamar Rinpoche will round off the whole course on Sunday 16.8.9 at 10:00am, by giving us a 3rd Karmapa initiation; this is the first time ever that this particular initiation has been given in Europe.
See you all very soon.
We gladly inform you that the 2nd International Summer Course web page & registration is online at 
After the successful start of a new series of courses at the EC, the so-called transmission weekends, many friends have asked for them to continue. These weekends are crucial for one of the main roles of the Europe Center - a place where transmission happens.
The second weekend comes with a slightly different topic: "Finding H.H. the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa". During this weekend Pedro Gomez, Matt Huddleston, Mathias Weitbrecht, Michael den Hoet and Caty Hartung will share their knowledge and experiences from the time of the Karmapa ...
Download & print the Europe Center events calendar!
After many requests we are publishing a handy PDF version of our events calendar. Please download it, print it or send it to your friends freely at your will.
Two upcoming events (apart from the obvious Summer Course in August) we would like to draw your attention to, are the 
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