February 27th, 2010
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.
February 25th, 2010
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:
February 13th, 2010
“Get your brick for the stupa” – This is the slogan of our fundrasing action to get many centers involved in the building of the Kalachakra Stupa. Every center can get a brick for a donation of 1080 Euros. 
Until now we have allready 28 centers and regions involved. WOW!
February 12th, 2010
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.
January 11th, 2010
Andrea and Hermann celebrated the New Year 2010 in Berchenling with warm temperatures and a partial eclipse of the moon…
December 28th, 2009
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
December 14th, 2009
“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…
December 1st, 2009
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.
November 25th, 2009
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.
November 14th, 2009
Today the huge earthmover which should digg the hole for our second water tank hit the first one. All water was gone after a few hours…
But we took the chance and refurbished the old water tank, while it was empty. Furthermore we finally managed to build the two new (round) water tanks.
October 28th, 2009
Finally we have got the building permission for the Kalachakra Stupa in Karma Berchen Ling. This means that in May 2010 we are going to start building the Stupa and complete it by summer.
According to the current plan, Lama Chogdrup Dorje and Lama Ole are going to inaugurate the stupa in the days from 21 to 24 August 2010.
September 30th, 2009
In one week a team of Czech workers isolated the roof of the shower house with mineral wool, incrusted with gipsum plasterboards and wooden finish-boards allmost all attic and part of the basement. They also finished the sheet-metall roof and isolated the retreat houses. And of course, they produced some hundreds of Tsatsas.
September 10th, 2009
Thank you all for coming and sharing the joy…
June 16th, 2009
The work on the shower house is progressing and will hopefully be completed by the end of this week. Next, the house will be plastered and the ceiling will be made.
Now we have a big room for the tsa-tsa producing. Tomorrow the first group of people are going up to make tsa-tsas. Everybody is most welcome to help.
May 20th, 2009
without words…
May 10th, 2009
Again the 72h prostration retreat took place and opend the season in Berchenling. Lama Chodrup Dorje who will build and inaugurate the Kalachakra Stupa with Lama Ole Nydahl visited the place and joined the prostrations!
November 27th, 2007
First of all: In September 07 we sat together as an international team and developed a long-term “Vision of Karma Berchen Ling Sangha”:
May 1st, 2007
Stephi from Graz has stayed on the place over the winter and gave many friends the opportunity to come and go as they please, the place was very lively! Friends from Austria, Poland, the Slovak Republic, England, Germany Switzerland and Athens meditated together during the winter. Except for 14 days, she always had company. So, the houses on our beautiful place are well used.
November 27th, 2006
The first centre activity of the year was the 72 hours prostration retreat end of May. Following that the building season was opened. First we noticed several damages which had occurred over winter:
