EC Blog News & Reports

By klara

Most of the beautifully coloured leaves have fallen to the ground, the top half of the mountains on the opposite side of the lake are snow-white and the nights are getting quite chilly. So our forest team Jürgen and JC are spending their day outside doing what needs to be done, before the first heavy snowfall. Surely they will get a lot of support from the Czech friends coming for the first country weekend at the Europe Center.

By meike

Last Friday morning we had a lovely breakfast with Lama Ole and friends from the EC, Immenstadt, Schwarzenberg and other nearby sanghas, before he left for the centers meeting in Braunschweig.

By cristina

This weekend the Immenstadt/Europe Center Sangha came together for a relaxed and delicious dinner at the EC. After months of exciting events and enormous activity, the time was just right to celebrate the joy and friendship we shared this summer, and how we managed to work and live together in such a fine style. The food, made by everyone, was tasty and had great international variety – from sushi and pumpkin soup to homemade Irish bread and Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte.

By meike

The lonely autumn has turned out to very busy weekend filled with interesting people:  Hamburg sangha came from the North to give us a tranmission from the times of their famous Hamburg Bau Café, the core team of the Summer course met to give each other feed-back from this years summer course, a group of Czechs explored the forests for wood work and friends from Munich came with the  Schwarzenberg sangha for the first official inauguration night in our amazing caffeteria.  Imagine two DJs, great dancing music, the best caipirinha and the smell of fresh wooden Bau Cafe facing the lake view.

By klara

Things have gone a little quiet on the blog front recently and for this we apologize. However this is not because we’ve been lazing around here at the EC or running off on exotic holidays, rather we have been  busy, cleaning-up after the courses, building roofs, finishing the bau cafe, repairing terraces, cutting trees……plus many other things, as we get ready for the fast approaching winter!

By cristina

The perfect end to the retreat, a Q&A session for the 8th Karmapa practitioners and a blessing for the team, from our very special surprise guest .

By klara

Just a few weeks after the end of the Summer Course, the next EC event started to appear. A small team returned (actually some never left) to build-up the first ever 8th Karmapa retreat at the EC. Though it was a small event compared with the Summer Course, with only just over 1200 on site, and with much simpler facilities, the 8th Karmapa practitioners in the gompa and the ngondro practicing team outside, seemed to have a great time. For the 8th Karmapa practitioners, there were meditations with Sherab Gyaltsen Rinpoche and Lama Ole, commentaries on the 8th Karmapa text from Rinpoche, and evening questions and answer sessions with Lama Ole, at the same time the team had their own evening program in the team gompa; and on Saturday Rinpoche gave a wonderful initiation in to Karma Pakshi for everyone. The finale was a big suprise from very special guest…………

By klara

Amazing days in the EC with Shamar Rinpoche are over, but you can still have a look at few pictures from this great event. Shamar Rinpoche gave Mahamudra course and initiation into 3rd Karmapa at the end of the Summer course 2009. Highly respected Lama taught us about mind and as a cherry on the cake he gave us for the first time in Europe the intiation into 3rd Karmapa. We all had such a great time and we are already looking forward to host you next year here, or even better – anytime you wish to come during the upcoming year!

By klara

The tenth day of the course brought very insipring program: Loving Eyes initiation given by Sherab Gyaltsen Rinpoche. Here are the photoimpressions from this event!

By klara