Give the gift of dharma! Gift certificates are now available from the Shambhala Meditation Center of Los Angeles through Paypal or for purchase at the center’s bookstore. Paypal gift certificates purchased online can be used for any program at SMCLA including classes, Shambhala Training weekends, and special events. Note, however, that gift certificates purchased at the center can be used for any program and can also be used in our bookstore.

All revenue from the gift certificates helps support the center's efforts toward the purchase of a new building, which we will need to do when our lease expires in November of 2010.

To purchase through Paypal, click on the following link. Once you have purchased the gift certificate, you may use the redemption code provided to pay for programs as you register online. You may have PayPal email the gift certificate to your recipient, or you may print and deliver it personally.

Fundraising

“It is our duty, yours and mine together, to actualize the sanity that has been taught by the Lord Buddha.”

--Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, 1983 Seminary Transcripts

The Shambhala Meditation Center of Los Angeles has been a training ground for enlightened society and discovering basic goodness for thirty-five years. It has been a place for hearing, contemplating and integrating the dharma. It has been a place that provides an oasis of sanity in a fast-paced world of confusion. Our sangha takes the words of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche seriously.

While we are delighted to have found a rental space to move to, it is the aspiration of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche that we find our own building on land that we will own. The cost of owning property in Southern California is notoriously high, so this aspiration will take time to become a reality.

Help us build a new center that will be a center for all of Southern California. To do this we need your financial support. If you were thinking of sending in a donation to the SMCLA Building Fund and hadn’t done it yet, please take the time to do it now. If you hadn't planned to give, please give it some thought, and make a donation today. If you have given to the Building Fund already, thank you very much.

The magical element that binds the words ’society’ and ‘enlightenment’ into ‘enlightened society’ is the wholehearted motivation of individuals to engage personally in a social transformation that will lead to betterment of the society.

--Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, Treatise on Society and Organization

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