Sangha of Auspicious Companions

As the year comes to a close, we wanted to send along some news and our deepest thanks for your support and interest in Ani Pema’s activities.

Pema was on retreat for the month of November and is now on her way to her home
monastery, Gampo Abbey, in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, where she’ll be for the first few months of the New Year. While there, she’ll lead the annual 7-week winter monastic retreat, yarne. The tradition of the yarne goes back to the time of the Buddha and is practiced by all Buddhist monasteries around the world.

In this coming year, Pema will lead two weekend retreats at Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. She’ll publish a new book, new audio recordings, and a new online, interactive course based on her teachings at this year’s yarne retreat at Gampo Abbey. We’ll let you know more about these endeavors when the time comes.

Please consider making a donation to the Pema Chödrön Foundation. It is only thanks to the generosity and support of friends like you that Pema’s work and the activities of the Pema Chödrön Foundation are flourishing. You could choose to support a particular project, or offer it to be used where it is most needed. Wherever it goes, it will help make the world a better place in innumerable ways – Here

With the support of the Pema Chödrön Foundation, many nuns in Nepal and Bhutan are now able to receive the same education and opportunity for deep retreat as their male counterparts have always enjoyed. The Pema Chödrön Foundation is supporting the building a 3-year retreat center, Pema Chödrön Drupde, in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, and we recently made a substantial grant to help complete the building of a monastic college at Surmang Monastery in eastern Tibet.

The Pema Chödrön Foundation is also committed to the

support of Gampo Abbey, so that it will remain a rich training ground for western monks and nuns for generations to come.

Finally, our Book Initiative offers Pema’s books to underserved individuals and the organizations that serve them, free of charge.

Pema has asked us to send along her love and best wishes for the New Year, and her most sincere thanks for your support and interest in her work. It’s only because of the help of friends like you that Pema’s message can be heard and is of benefit during these challenging times.

Much love to all of you from Pema and all of us at the Pema Chödrön Foundation.

December 20, 2014

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