Английская Википедия:Drala Mountain Center

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Shambhala Mountain Center

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The Great Stupa of Dharmakaya Which Liberates Upon Seeing

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Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Drala Mountain Center (formerly known as Shambhala Mountain Center) is a spiritual retreat center located on 600 acres in a valley in the northern Colorado Rocky Mountains. The original center on this land was founded by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1971 at Red Feather Lakes, Colorado.

History

Trungpa arrived in Boulder, Colorado, in 1970 with a number of students from Tail of the Tiger in Barnet, Vermont, now known as Karmê Chöling. Students from neighboring towns and across the country became part of the Karma Dzong Meditation Center in Boulder.Шаблон:Citation needed Trungpa's growing umbrella organization was called Vajradhatu. The land for what was then called Rocky Mountain Dharma center was purchased for Vajradhatu with money from a donor. A band of students who called themselves the Pygmies built the first rough structures and inhabited the land as a commune, and the first Dathun (month-long intensive meditation practice) was held there in the summer of 1974. Improvements were made over the next decades and more structures built, to create the capacity for year-round programs.

In 1990 Trungpa's son, Ösel Rangdröl Mukpo became head of the organization. In 1995, Ösel Rangdröl Mukpo was enthroned as Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, a chögyal, or "dharma king," who holds and propagates the teachings of Shambhala. The name of Rocky Mountain Dharma center was changed to Rocky Mountain Shambhala Center sometime in the 1990s.

In 2000, after Sakyong Mipham started the process of enclosing the previously secular teachings of Shambhala within the container of a new buddhist lineage, Shambhala Buddhism, the name of the center was changed again, to Shambhala Mountain Center. At this time, Shambhala Mountain Center incorporated separately from Shambhala International as a 501c3 educational non-profit with limited oversight from the Sakyong Potrang, an organization representing Sakyong Mipham. In 2018, Sakyong Mipham was accused of multiple counts of sexual misconduct and abuse of power and temporarily stepped back from teaching (see Controversy section). In October 2021, Drala Mountain Center fully separated itself legally and financially from the Sakyong Potrang and established a self governing board of directors.

In February 2022, the center changed its name to Drala Mountain Center, after the Tibetan Buddhist term drala, citing Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche's translation of the word as “energy beyond aggression.” On February 28, 2022 Drala Mountain Center filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, citing the 2018 clergy sexual misconduct scandal, the Cameron Peak Fire and COVID-19 as contributing factors.

Location

The property is located in the Red Feather Lakes area on 600 acres (2.4 km²) in the foothills west of Fort Collins. The center has Шаблон:Convert of building space for meditation, dharma talks, programs, and lodging. The geographic coordinates are Шаблон:Coord.

Programs

The center hosts Shambhala Training meditation programs as well as yoga instruction, leadership training, children's programs, and various longer term retreats.

The Great Stupa of Dharmakaya

After the death of Trungpa in 1987, his followers began a fourteen-year process of building a stupa at the Shambhala Mountain Center. Consecrated in August 2001, The Great Stupa of Dharmakaya is 108 feet (33 m) tall. It is noted on the Stupa and is common knowledge among Shambhala practitioners who have visited center that Trungpa's relics are permanently entombed in the stupa following Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

Forestry Management and Cameron Peak Fire

Beginning in 2017, Drala Mountain Center worked with the Fort Collins Conservation District to restore 118 acres of forest to the state it was back in the mid to late 1800s, intending to increase understory biodiversity and fire resilience. In the fall of 2020 the Cameron Peak Fire burned 14 Drala Mountain Center structures, but part of its northeastern expansion stopped on DMC land as a direct result of DMC's forest management. DMC damages were estimated to be $2 million.

Controversy

In 2018, multiple reports of clergy sexual misconduct and power abuse by the then head of Shambhala, Sakyong Mipham, as well as other Shambhala teachers, led to an institutional crisis for Shambhala International and its land centers, including Drala Mountain Center. Drala Mountain Center issued a statement in 2018 stating that they stand with the women who came forward with allegations, and that Sakyong Mipham is not welcome to teach at the center until he has gone through a process of accountability, which they say has not yet occurred. The Larimer County Sheriff's Office opened an investigation into alleged misconduct at Drala Mountain Center in 2018 that was later closed with no charges filed. In October 2021, Drala Mountain Center fully separated itself legally and financially from the Sakyong Potrang, the organization representing Sakyong Mipham.

External links

• Shambhala Mountain Center