Our Vision

Vajra Dakini Nunnery is a contemplative community of nuns and a place of training and practice for monastics and lay practitioners, women and men, old and young.

H.H. Chetsang Rinpoche and Ven. Dhyani Ywahoo sited the Nunnery at the Sunray Peace Village in 2001. We incorporated as a church in Vermont in 2004 and received local and state permits fo a Mediation Hall and Library at the sunray Peace Village, in Lincoln, Vermont. This site was consecrated in 2004.

HH Chetsang Rinpoche's Letter of blessing
HE Garchen Rinpoche's Letter of blessing
Khenchen Rinpoche Konchog Gyaltsen's Letter of blessing

In 2007, after thoroughly researching our immediate needs and fundraising options, the Board of Stewards of Vajra Dakini Nunnery adopted a 3-step plan for manifesting the Nunnery.

The Board purchased a simple house and 10 acres just a half mile from the Peace Village in Lincoln. This became the first home of Vajra Dakini Nunnery providing a home for the nuns and a place to carry out monastic activities. Purchasing this property in the summer of 2007 offered two important opportunities:

We opened in the fall of 2007, welcoming the first nuns as residents, and offering programs for lay people

Spiritual programs and activities are the heart of the nunnery. Purchasing the home in Lincoln has allowed Khenmo Drolma to devote full time to programs:

• working with those considering entering the monastic life,
• overseeing progress toward ordination for those who have chosen this path,
• offering Dharma teachings, as well as interfaith talks locally and across the U.S., Canada and Europe
• offering weekly meditation and teachings for the lay public,
• creating youth programs similar to those she has offered at Gampo Abbey,
• working with the local hospice community,
• holding a conference of Women Spiritual Leaders of Vermont, and more.

The additional 10 acres provides a building that we are renovating as a teachers/retreat cabin and space on which we can build more retreat cabins as needed. This residence and land is the perfect compliment to our forthcoming larger home at the Sunray Peace Village.

STEP TWO:  CURRENT PROJECTS

Holding the vision of the future building is a Tara Temple to be erected in 2009. It will house a magnificent sculpture of White Tara by Prof. Maurice Lowe. The consecrated site is thus already a place of pilgrimage.

Currently we are conducting capital campaign to complete the purchase of the nun’s shelter, Tara Temple and retreat cabin.

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Building the Vajra Dakini Nunnery large Mediation Hall, Library and small residence at the Sunray Peace Village. When completed, we will build our long envisioned meditation hall, Library and residence at the Sunray Peace Village. The nearby house and land will be retained as a an important quiet residence and place for retreat for our monastic community and lay practitioners

The nunnery will include a main meditation hall, library/classroom and living space for a community of four nuns.

Traditional Elders and Tibetan Rinpoches (precious teachers) have long recognized this valley nestled in the mountains as a site of feminine wisdom, supportive three intact wisdom streams, of powerful spiritual practice.