In person and over Zoom Kagyu Changchub Chuling is pleased to announce that, per the wish of Khenpo Lodrö Donyö Rinpoche, Lama Eric will again be offering Bokar Rinpoche’s Mahamudra Seminar at Ser Chö Ösel Ling (SCOL), our retreat land in Goldendale, WA, and via Zoom. Bokar Rinpoche initiated the program in 1992 to provide […]
We are pleased to be able to once again host a 1-week personal retreat at Ser Chö Ösel Ling, our retreat land in Goldendale, WA. Some may sign up for the entire week and others will come for a weekend. The week or weekend of retreat will begin on a Friday September 19. During the […]
Feel like you need a sanity break? Never done a meditation retreat before? Need some inspiration for your meditation? This weekend retreat—from Friday evening till Monday lunch—can serve any of these purposes and more.
Description This four-day residential weekend workshop offers techniques in outdoor landscape painting in the high desert forest of the eastern Columbia Gorge. The workshop is designed for artists of varying skill levels who have some experience in drawing and composition; knowledge of color theory is helpful. We will explore color, composition, and perspective in new […]
The Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma are a classification of the views and practices expressed by Shakyamuni Buddha in his forty-five years of teaching. In Vajrayana Buddhism as preserved in Tibet, we embrace each of these systems in our study and practice as complementary rather than contradictory. This retreat will prove suitable for anyone with even just a few months of practice background
SCOL invites you to our Goldendale retreat center for a celebration of Losar and work party to clean the facility to prepare for the 2026 retreat season.
We are pleased to be able to once again host our annual one-month opportunity for personal retreat at Ser Chö Ösel Ling, our retreat land in Goldendale, WA. Some may sign up for the entire month and others will come for stays ranging from a weekend to three weeks.
Never done a meditation retreat before? Feel like you need a sanity break? Need some inspiration for your meditation? This weekend retreat—from Friday evening till Monday lunch—can serve any of these purposes and more.
Come enjoy the Columbia Gorge in bloom! SCOL hosts work parties several times a year to serve together on major projects. These are opportunities to meet in a more informal setting, socialize, and complete tasks needed to operate our retreat facility and a property of this size.
Vipashyana practice is an analytical approach to meditation, but not in an ordinarily intellectual sense. As Traleg Rinpoche says, these investigations are “designed to cut through to the very heart of things—to pave the way for a direct insight into the very nature of ultimate reality itself…"
Families take note! You are invited to join other families for a weekend of fun at KCC’s retreat land, Ser Chö Ösel Ling, near Goldendale, WA. Who may attend? Families of any configuration, especially those with children through high school age.
