"Place of Peace and Wilderness"We meet every Monday from 6:30-7:30 p.m. in the shrine room at 3540 South 2208 East on Keller Lane. If Monday is on a holiday, we still meet. We practice Tonglen and Calm Abiding on alternating weeks .
Follow the prayer flags to the right of the garage, there is a dedicated space that is our shrine room in the back of the house in a separate building.We do two rounds of meditation. The Sangha offers regular day-long silent retreats. We also have: •Ngondro practice on the first Sunday of the month at 4:00 p.m. in the shrine room.
•Medicine Buddha practice on the second Sunday of the month at 4:00 p.m. at 86 B Street, #3.
To attend either Ngondro and Medicine Buddha, permission from Rinpoche must be given in advance.
Our root teacher is Khentrul Lodrö Thayé Rinpoche. We are under his guidance and blessing and practice under the Katog Choling lineage, in the Nyingma tradition. Rinpoche comes to Salt Lake City to offer teachings at least twice yearly.
Rinpoche can be reached through www.katogcholing.com with questions.
Cynthia Shumway is the local coordinator. She can be reached at 801-532-1410, or cynthiashumway@gmail.com.
Blake Spalding is Rinpoche’s senior student in Utah and co-coordinates the Sangha. Dharma questions should go to Blake, by phone or email, blaker108@color-country.net, 435-335-7380.
Polly Isaacson Spence donates and tends to the shrine room. She can be reached at hccaslc@aol.com.
The entire Sangha participates in facilitating Rinpoche’s teaching visits in Salt Lake City. We also meet whenever Rinpoche can offer a live streaming video through the Internet. Check his schedule at the Katog Choling website. It is our heart-felt intention to practice principles of loving-kindness, right speech, right action and compassion with each other and our community at large.
We humbly aspire to support each other in recognizing our true nature.
