About Olmo Ling

Olmo Ling is a religious educational non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the teachings of the Bon tradition of Tibet and making them available and accessible to lay practitioners.

Our Center offers weekly meditation practice and teachings, prayers, meditation instruction and private interviews, and a study program that includes regular retreats with Tempa Lama and visiting lamas of the Bon tradition.

A Refuge for Practitioners

Our weekly program offers a space of refuge, a space where people can support each other in their practice and where we can reconnect with our innate pure nature and good heart.

Bon Buddhist studies

Olmo Ling’s study program offers Bon teachings and retreats or workshops on a variety of topics. Olmo Ling is also working on commentary texts and translations of essential Bon practices.

Bon Social Action

The spiritual teachings of compassion and liberation from suffering become alive when we express them in our actions. Olmo Ling offers training and practice in the areas of healing and compassionate care and spiritual support for the dying. We are currently working to establish a Project on Being with Dying, a Children and Teen Project, and a Prison Project. The Project on Being with Dying involves both training on compassionate care for the dying and actual spiritual help and support for the dying. The Olmo Ling Prison Project will help prisoners through meditation instruction and through inspiration on how to transform difficulties. Our training program in these areas enables people who wish to actively help others to become a resource for others through social action inspired by the Bon Buddhist teachings.