Karma Berchen Ling

On the night of August 14th we had a very unusual event – we had a video conference with Lama Ole in Europe Centre. So the friends in Allgäu could see us gathered around the stupa. For such a remote place where there is not even a phone line, it was very special.
We showed a presentation with the latest images from the stupa. At the beginning, pictures from Tsechu Rinpoche and Lama Ole were to be seen, because we could feel their presence all the time.
In this way, we also showed how the infrastructure looks like – we already enjoy the new kitchen and cafeteria.

Yesterday, the stupa became one level higher. There was also a blessing-ceremony to eliminate the obstacles. The stupa starts looking more and more like a stupa and… it is so beautiful.
Beside that activities, the gompa tent was set up. At the moment we are 160 people on site and everything is now waiting for all the people from all over the world.

The course preparations are running at full speed, right now. Today the kitchen will be set up (3 days in advance!). The water tanks are already waiting for the yogi bathrooms that are being installed. Also the dining tent is almost ready as well as the gompa tent.
Meanwhile, the stupa waits for the next filling that will happen on Friday 13th of August.
This gives us the whole next week to try out how well everything works.

To get our new container on the place, we had to knock down the famous KBL gate partially. It took us almost a whole day to pull down the arch. The gate was build togehter with the Sangha House and became somehow one of the symbols of Berchen Ling. Now the gate will get new heads on top of the pillars.

Dear friends,

as you all know, we will have the huge Kalachakra Stupa Course including a Mahamudra (Great Seal) Course this summer. Therefor, all people, being responsible for one or more departments like kitchen, cleaning, registration and so on met on site, to draw the final solutions. It was a great and inspiring meeting. “Together we can make it happen!”

Dear friends,

the Czech KBL Website is online, please visit http://cz.berchenling.org. You can also shift between the languages at the upper right corner of the website.

Thanks to the great work of the translator J. Bures and the fast organizational help of Petr Hubá?ek we finally made it. Polish, Hungarian and Greek translation will be there very soon too. Read more...

Dear friends,

one of the best ways to come to Berchenling is the ferry from Italy to Patras. We checked out the latest prices:

Now, everyone can get up to 50% discount for the ferry boats to Patras until the end of February (respectively March) at: Read more...

Some members of the team were meeting at Schwarzenberg (Germany) last weekend, to work on the plans for the building of the Stupa and the course preperations. We had meetings with effective brainstorming and discussions that have actually led to a concrete timetable.
Saturday, even our stupa architect, Wojtek Koswoski from Darmstadt, joined our meeting and enriched everthing with his experience, concepts, sketches and stories of the twenty years of building stupas with Lopon Tsechou Rinpoche.
With Ouzo, Metaxa and beautiful images of our place, we enjoyed a Greek-eating out – deep in snow Karma Berchen Ling in Oy-Mittelberg, Germany. It was just fantastic.

To collect all the necessary donations for the Kalachakra Stupa in Berchenling, every Diamondway Buddhism center is invited to get it’s brick for the stupa. We created a model of the Kalachakra Stupa with 108 pieces. Every center can get one brick for 1080 Euros. For further information see the Finance & Donations site or contact donation@berchenling.org

“We have one mission only: To make the impossible possible. And to stay friends afterwards.”

With this slogan we started our last big team meeting in Hungary before we will all meet in Berchenling in May 2010. The incredible Budapest Sangha took care of everything: nice food, perfect accomodation and even the possibility ta visit an old Osmanic bath… Read more...

The Polish group of Tsatsa producers was the last one before the winter. All groups together allready produced 7,000 Tsatsas. The work will be continued in spring 2010.

End of October a group of Austrians went by cars to Berchen Ling and started with the “industrial like” Tsatsa production in the Lama house. A few people stayed for four weeks and guided the Austrian, German, Polish and Bulgarian working groups coming for a week each. Allways eight people produced Tsatsas, but also repaired the water tank and completed the shower house construction.