Welcome to our website. Here you can learn about the vision, activities and monthly schedule of Karma Changchub Ling and its Mahasangha Space.

May 30th—June 4th

At the end of May, Ringu Tulku Rinpoche will confer the Vajrayogini Abhisheka to qualified recipients at the Halifax Shambhala Centre.  The empowerment will be followed by four days of sadhana training.

This empowerment is being conducted and hosted under the auspices of the Open Umbrella initiative of Sakyong Wangmo Diana Mukpo and by the collective efforts of Ocean’s Ngondro Practice Committee, by the Halifax Shambhala Centre, and by Karma Changchub Ling. Ringu Tulku Rinpoche is conferring the empowerment on the request and with the blessing of His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa.

First Phase Registration is now open via the Halifax Shambhala Center Website but is presently limited to those receiving the abhisheka for the first time and those coming from away to support the first-time recipients. The registration webpage also provides much important information and links regarding requirements, Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, frequently asked questions, etc.

In a few weeks, registration will also open to the general assembly of Vajrayogini sadhakas.

The following discussion of Vajrayogini is an article which was edited by Carolyn Gimian for inclusion in a catalog for the exhibit “The Silk Route and the Diamond Path: Esoteric Buddhist Art on the Trans-Himalayan Trade Routes.” For the exhibit, Trungpa Rinpoche supervised the design and construction of an actual shrine setup for the practice of the Vajrayogini Sadhana, displayed with all its attendant ritual objects. Some of the material in the article was dictated by Trungpa Rinpoche; some of it was taken from earlier talks he had given. It is material that is not available in any of his other published writings.

The article was included in Volume III, pp. 412–441, of The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa. The beginning section of this article is reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boulder, CO: www.shambhala.com.

Including talks by
His Holiness Karmapa, Dzogchen Pönlop Rinpoche and Mindrölling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche,
and photos by Marvin Moore

The day chosen for our KCCL Opening Celebration was Vaishakha Day—the most auspicious day in the Tibetan calendar celebrating the birth, death and enlightenment of Shakyamuni Buddha.