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Maitripa College offers a Master of Arts in Applied Buddhism, a Master of Divinity degree, classical Tibetan language studies, continuing education, and community programming. Application for Fall 2022 degree program entry to Maitripa College will be available soon...meanwhile if you are interested in starting sooner or just taking a class or two, please emaill us at [email protected] or visit our website at www.maitripa.org.

What can contemplative practice and science reveal about the mind’s potential?Join us at Maitripa College in Portland or...
09/03/2026

What can contemplative practice and science reveal about the mind’s potential?

Join us at Maitripa College in Portland or online for Dream Yoga & Contemplative Science: The Mind’s Potential with Venerable Ani Choyang on September 18.

A Tenzin Gyatso Science Scholar, Venerable Ani Choyang was among the first Tibetan nuns to participate in Emory University’s two-year science training program through the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative. She brings this background to an exploration of the mind through Buddhist contemplative traditions and science.

This event is part of The Hidden Happiness Tour, September 16–20:

✦ Women’s Wisdom from Monastic Life — September 16
✦ Dream Yoga & Contemplative Science: The Mind’s Potential — September 18
✦ Transforming Anger, Anxiety, and Death — September 20

📍 Maitripa College, Portland, Oregon + Online

Learn more + register: https://maitripa.org/events/the-hidden-happiness-tour-ani-choyang/

09/02/2026

Venerable Lozang Yönten asks us to consider something we already have evidence for: we can change.

We’ve grown through experience, learning, and the conditions of our lives. So if change is already possible, how much further could it go?

From a Buddhist perspective, Buddha nature points to the potential of the mind to change and develop—even toward enlightenment.

Join Venerable Yönten for Mind and Its Potential, the first module of Discovering Buddhism at Maitripa College, beginning September 17.

📍 In person in Portland + online
🔗 Learn more and register: https://maitripa.org/events/db_mind-and-its-potential-2/2026-09-17/

09/01/2026

Join us for Tara Puja: Community Practice with Venerable Yönten. 🌿

Arya Tara embodies the skillful activity of all enlightened beings. Together, we’ll engage in Tara practice to create auspicious conditions for liberation from fears and obstacles.

Sunday, September 13 | 11:00 am–12:30 pm PT
📍 Maitripa College, Portland, Oregon
💻 Online via Zoom

All are welcome, at every level of practice and experience. Those joining us in person are also invited to stay afterward for community tea and conversation.

No registration is required for in-person attendance. Zoom link available on the event page.

https://maitripa.org/events/tara-puja-community-fall2026/

08/31/2026

What does it mean to speak like honey? 🍯

Venerable Ani Choyang reflects on right speech—using words that are pleasant to hear while also being meaningful and helpful.

Join Venerable Ani Choyang for The Hidden Happiness Tour, September 16-20 at Maitripa College in Portland and online.

Learn more and register: https://maitripa.org/events/the-hidden-happiness-tour-ani-choyang/

Venerable Lozang Yönten teaches Mind and Its Potential, the first module in Discovering Buddhism, a 14-module series off...
08/28/2026

Venerable Lozang Yönten teaches Mind and Its Potential, the first module in Discovering Buddhism, a 14-module series offering a structured introduction to the Buddhist path. This course begins a planned offering of all 14 Discovering Buddhism modules in succession.

In this first module, we’ll explore the nature of mind, the relationship between mind and brain, the role our state of mind plays in happiness and suffering, and the potential to transform the afflictions that disturb us.

Whether you’re new to Buddhist study or looking to deepen your understanding, this is a natural place to begin—and an opportunity to continue through the Discovering Buddhism series.

📅 Thursdays, 6–7:30 pm PT
🗓 Beginning September 17
📍 In person at Maitripa College in Portland + online

Learn more and register: https://maitripa.org/events/db_mind-and-its-potential-2/2026-09-17/

What can decades of Buddhist study and monastic life teach us about the mind?This September, Venerable Ani Choyang of Ja...
08/27/2026

What can decades of Buddhist study and monastic life teach us about the mind?

This September, Venerable Ani Choyang of Jangchub Choeling Nunnery joins us in Portland for The Hidden Happiness Tour—a series of conversations exploring Buddhist practice, contemplative science, and the possibilities of transforming the mind.

Venerable Ani Choyang brings a particularly rich perspective to these conversations, drawing from years of monastic study and practice as well as training in science through the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative.

Join us for:

✨ Women’s Wisdom from Monastic Life
September 16 • 6–7:30 pm PT

✨ The Mind’s Potential: Dream Yoga & Contemplative Science
September 18 • 6–7:30 pm PT

✨ Transforming Anger, Anxiety, and Death
September 20 • 11 am–12:30 pm PT

Portland + Online

Come for one event—or join us throughout the tour.

Learn more and register: https://maitripa.org/events/the-hidden-happiness-tour-ani-choyang/

ContemplativeScience

08/26/2026

Venerable Lozang Yönten offers a Buddhist perspective on intuition: before trusting what we feel, it can be worth noticing the state of mind it comes from.

Is it arising from attachment, aversion, or agitation? Or from a place of greater calm and clarity?

If you’d like to explore the mind more deeply, join Venerable Yönten for Mind and Its Potential, the first module of Discovering Buddhism at Maitripa College. The series explores how the mind shapes our experiences of happiness and suffering—and how we can recognize and transform destructive patterns through study, reflection, and practice.

📅 Thursdays, September 17–December 10, 6–7:30pm
📍 In person at Maitripa College in Portland + online
🌱 Open to beginners and experienced students

Learn more and register: https://maitripa.org/events/db_mind-and-its-potential-2/2026-09-17/

08/25/2026

Venerable Ani Choyang invites us to look more closely at the difference between reality and our perception of reality. How often do we trust our own perception so completely that we assume, “What I thought is 100% true?”

This September, join Ani Choyang of Jangchub Choeling Nunnery for The Hidden Happiness Tour at Maitripa College, September 16–20. Through talks and practice, the tour explores monastic life, the potential of the mind, and Buddhist approaches to anger, anxiety, and death. Join us in Portland or online for the talks.

Learn more and register:
https://maitripa.org/events/the-hidden-happiness-tour-ani-choyang/

08/19/2026

The labels other people place on us can quietly become the way we see ourselves. But are those labels really who we are?

Venerable Tenzin Drolma invites us to look more closely at the stories and identities we take on—and to question whether they truly define us. When we loosen our grip on those labels, a different way of relating to ourselves becomes possible.

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1119 SE Market Street
Portland, OR
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