Shambhala Environments

Home
Shambhala Environments
- Guiding Principles
- General Guidelines
Creating Our Centres
About the Panel
- Advisory Panel (Full Description)
- Panel Members
Further Study
- Kanyu / Feng-shui
- Sacred Architecture
Examples
Contacts

“When you express gentleness and precision in your environment then real brilliance and power can descend into that situation.”

— Dorje Dradul of Mukpo

Shambhala Environments

A Shambhala environment is a physical space that is sacred: sacredness is the foundational principle of Shambhala culture and our built environment. A Shambhala sacred space is one in which innate goodness is mature and fully manifest – visible and palpable. [ Read more … ]

Creating Our Centres

Creating our Shambhala Centres is a process of joining Heaven and Earth. Through developing, uplifting and expanding our Centers, the Sakyong’s vision for creating enlightened society can be established on this earth. The Sakyong’s Advisory Panel on Shambhala Environments was formed based on the wishes of the Sakyong, to help with that process. [ Read more … ]

Further Study

If you would like to explore more deeply some of the principles involved in developing your centre, or you would like to see examples of what other Centres have been doing… [ Read more … ]

The Panel

The Sakyong’s Advisory Panel on Shambhala Environments has been created to foster a deeper understanding within our community of the nature of genuine Shambhala environments, and to strengthen our ability as a society, to manifest those environments. [ Read more … ]

Support and Services

Professional support and services could be required at many different points over the course of a Centre’s growth and development while creating a building or environment that expresses our unique Shambhala culture. [ Read more … ]

Examples

We thought it would be helpful to share examples, so that we can all begin to see and more deeply understand what it is that makes us Shambhala. We encourage you to share with the Panel what you feel is the best expression of your Centre’s vision. [ Read more … ]

Return to top of page