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Supporting the EC vision in the Americas

Date: March 9, 2012

Dear Friends,

We wanted to give a quick update on our fundraising successes for moreEC in the Americas. From August to December 2011, we raised around $245,000 US (182K EUR) in South, Central, and North America. We achieved this together through the generosity of individuals along with the many enthusiastic sangha fundraising parties and events. Check out the many events on the Americas Project Facebook Group.

The Americas moreEC Raffle also raised over $25,000 in profit for moreEC. Many thanks to the coordinators who pulled this initiative together across 14 countries; it was the first of many Americas-wide projects to come.

Though the main fundraising push is over, we are still 600K EUR short of the goal and support is still welcome.

Thank you for everyone’s generosity.
The Americas moreEC team

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What is the Europe Center?

  • A face for Diamond Way worldwide and a seat for our teacher Lama Ole.
  • A place where buddhists from all cultures connect and inspire each other.
  • A home for courses, from massive summer courses to cozy retreats and transmission weekends.
  • A gift to the future, so generation after generation may meet the authentic and precious methods of the Diamond Way.

In 2007 we purchased the Europe Center.
Now we're ready to finish what we started.

The project has four main parts – constructing a new building for residents, guests, and seminars; reconstructing the barn to create a new big gompa and a huge common kitchen with a dinning room; and finally building a new working area and reshaping several outside areas. The construction itself adds up to over 4200 m2 of buildings and the outside landscaping projects will cover some 3000 m2 of land.

More meditation

In the planned 600 square-meter gompa with the capacity to fit 1,000 people, one will always find a place to practice. Medium-size meditation events like 8th Karmapa retreats can be comfortably held year-round with no need for tents.

More roots

Just as the Tsurphu monastery in Tibet grounded the Karma Kagyu lineage for 900 years, the EC is laying bedrock for Kagyu Buddhism in the West. Building on the Basis of our social and political freedoms, the EC preserves dharma everywhere it is threatened while instilling Buddhist values into our own cultures.

More activity

This project expands the scope of our Transmission Weekends, our Country Weekends, our Summer Courses, and opens creative space for ever more ways to practice and pass on the precious Diamond Way teachings.

More lama

As the EC continues to develop, Lama Ole spends on ever great portion of his time at the EC. With the ability to put up more guests, we give everyone more chances to share time with the lama.

More home

'Welcome home!' is the greeting for guests at the EC. Not only will short and long-term guests enjoy more space for practice and work, but with our expansion we can offer a more comfortable home for Karmapa, Sharmapa and our other distinguished guests.

More heritage

The EC is among the most significant Buddhist undertakings in the West. On top of more space for pactice, a new EC building will house our Diamond Way archives, a Buddhist library, and perhaps a permanent statue exhibition.

There's a lot more to MoreEC...