Tibetan / Vajrayana

Some of the Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and events in the US I’ve been to! Links & descriptions updated 2022.

Drepung Loseling Tibetan Monastery, Atlanta GA 2013

 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/yMthsWpRapvMszoT8

More about the premiere Tibetan Buddhist center in Atlanta at https://georgiameditation.org/tibetan-buddhist-meditation.html

Namygal Monastery, Ithaca NY, 2013; Cornell University museum

https://photos.app.goo.gl/FX7kmuYbw61NfD5XA

A Dalai Lama Library and Museum is planned with construction starting soon at this location, aiming to preserve and digitize all of his His Holiness’s teachings over the years for generations to come.

Padmasambhava Buddhist Center of Tennessee, Nashville TN 2011

 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/7RZXdPdprTeDSviSA

Update: A new building was constructed by 2018 (partially tearing down parts of the existing small one) to make this more into a proper temple, though it is still small compared to churches.

KTC Tibetan Buddhist Center – Albuquerque Karma Tegsum Choling, a Tibetan Buddhist center in the Karma Kagyu Lineage under the 17th Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorje, Albuquerque New Mexico, 2017

  

https://goo.gl/photos/5XW6Sr9HCwxQHVGU7

Events:

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Emory Presidential Distinguished Professor The Visit 2013, The Arena at Gwinnett Center / Emory University Cox Hall / Emory University Glenn Auditorium / Emory University Schwartz Center, 2013

 

https://goo.gl/photos/NdsBFAhBDUJZ6zQC9

2022 Update: HHDL holds the University Distinguished Professor post at Emory University and has visited several times. Unfortunately 2013 was the last year the Dalai Lama physically came to Atlanta, though he has held some virtual events since.

Atisha’s Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment, public talk with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, KFC Yum Center Arena, Louisville KY 2013

https://photos.app.goo.gl/qnTa6FegCWN78SsW8

Freedom Forward – Birmingham Human Rights; Secular Ethics in Our Time with His Holiness the Dalai Lama XIV, Regions Field and The Alabama Theater, Birmingham AL, October 2014

https://goo.gl/photos/24ALXg1g97eTiYTY9

This was my first event seeing the (probably paid and possibly fake) monks and nuns of the “New Kadampa Tradition” protesting loudly outside with angry chants and signs and flyers trying to smear the Dalai Lama… just ignore them!