Karme Choling
Barnet, Vermont, United States
A Shambhala Buddhist retreat center on 717 wooded acres in Barnet, Vermont, Chogyam Trungpa's first teaching seat in North America, founded as Tail of the Tiger in 1970.
Students of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche founded this center in 1970 as Tail of the Tiger on a former dairy farm in Barnet, Vermont, and it became Trungpa's first teaching seat in North America; the name changed to Karme Choling in 1974. Today it holds seven meditation halls, seven retreat cabins, a kyudo archery range and an organic farm across 717 wooded acres, with staff and guests camping on platforms in the summer months.
The center belongs to the same Shambhala lineage story as Drala Mountain Center, through the 2018 institutional crisis and its aftermath, and remains an active practice community offering programs, guest stays and residencies.
Visiting
Karme Choling runs registration-based programs and bookable guest and retreat cabins (802-633-2384); no walk-in day-visit program is advertised, so check current status.
Photo: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KCL_pond_2.jpg), CC BY-SA 3.0.
Associated traditions & practices
Visitor stories