We want to support and bring attention to other Three-Year Retreats that are happening around the planet.
If you know of someone or a group of people who are doing a Three-Year Retreat please contact us so we can link to them.
During the Three-Year Retreat at Diamond Mountain (2010-2014) other Three-Year Retreats will be occuring that are equally worth supporting.
Diamond Mountain University Australia
http://www.diamondcuttercentre.org/thunderbolt.html
Founded by Diamond Mountain students Lamas Giselle Ansselin and Ben Christian to bring the Diamond Mountain intensive study program to Australia. Their centre will also run a Three-Year Retreat starting in 2010 for those students who have completed their studies.
Chanteloube in Dordogne, France
http://www.songtsen.org/chanteloube/EN/actv_retreats.php#three_year_retreats
In 1975, after Kyabje Kangyur Rinpoche’s passing away, Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche began teaching at Chanteloube in Dordogne. The first retreat cabins at Chanteloube were built that same year in order to provide a place of practice for students wishing to perform long term retreats.
Since then, the organization of the traditional long retreats (three years and six months) has remained one of the centre’s main activities. The aim of the retreats is to create a protective environment which will allow students to concentrate on the essential aspects of Buddhist practice, namely, study, reflection and meditation, expounded according to the teachings of different traditions, in particular, the Nyingma tradition. This entails the preliminaries or ngöndro, followed by the generation stage practices of the three roots (lama, yidam, and khandro), and concluding with practices associated with the perfection stage.
So far, more than 13 such retreats have been organized, attended by more than 230 practitioners from all over the world.