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What Is Lotus Garden?

Approaching Lotus Garden from Judy Lane Lotus Garden, or Pema Gatsal (Tib.), is a 200-acre Tibetan Buddhist retreat and study center located in the Northern Shenandoah Valley adjoining the Blue Ridge Mountains. Situated near the scenic town of Luray, Virginia, Lotus Garden provides a beautiful and inspiring environment for the study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism.

Lotus Garden is the new home for the Venerable Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche's Annual Retreat, a three-week, international Buddhist retreat program that began 1997.

In keeping with the vision of the Rimé movement of Tibetan Buddhism to promote a non-sectarian approach to the study and practice of Buddhism, Lotus Garden will offer its facilities to Buddhist teachers of all of the schools of Tibetan Buddhism for group teachings and retreats, as well as to individuals interested in solitary retreats. The establishment of Buddhism in the West will be furthered at Lotus Garden by the opportunity for intensive study of Buddhist philosophy, texts and the sciences. Lotus Gardens will also be home for a translation committee and production of the Dharmashri Journal, a Tibetan Buddhist publication.