What we’re about
Dear Friends,
The Buddhist Center – Thubten Norbu Ling (TNL) is an active community of individuals seeking to learn the nature of our own minds. Through study, meditation , prayer, retreat and community service, we try to reach our highest potential. Our goal is to help people discover and increase their satisfaction, joy, and capacity to benefit others.
Everyone is welcome at The Buddhist Center – Thubten Norbu Ling. You do not need to be a Buddhist. Curiosity is a bonus. Learn more about who we are, our lineage and history, the team at TNL, where we’ve come from and where we’re going at [TNLSF.org](https://tnlsf.org/) or visit us at 130 Rabbit Road, Santa Fe.
Please check the Thubten Norbu Ling website calendar for classes being held at the center in person as well as live zoom classes being shown at the center, which are combined with in-person discussion. Classes and meditations will continue to be available on Zoom.
For more information and to join Zoom events, please go to the Thubten Norbu Ling Homepage at [TNLSF.org](https://tnlsf.org/) or access the full schedule of daily meditations, teachings, courses and practices here on the TNL calendar page: Thubten Norbu Ling Event Calendar.
Please note, Zoom links for TNL events are NOT provided on Meetup. They are only provided on the individual event pages on the Thubten Norbu Ling website.
RSVPs are not required. Drop in to events on Zoom or at the center anytime!
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Freedom Through Understanding: The Buddhist Path to Happiness and LiberationThe Buddhist Center Thubten Norbu Ling, Santa Fe, NM
In person & Zoom
with Venerable Robina CourtinWe will look at the Buddhist approach to how things exist, first conventionally — the view of karma, how the mind exists, how to develop compassion; and then ultimately — the view of dependent arising and emptiness.
- Experiential Lamrim: How We Stay Trapped in Cyclic ExistenceLink visible for attendees
Zoom only
with Ven. Shankha MitraThis series is specifically aimed towards developing realizations—unshakeable conviction of the validity of the path and internalizing the pith instructions. In the process it will lessen our attachment, anger, and other negative emotions, while increasing our virtuous attributes.
- Weekend Retreat: When the Chocolate Runs OutThe Buddhist Center Thubten Norbu Ling, Santa Fe, NM
“I could tell you about attachment for one whole year, but you’ll never begin to really understand it until you start to look deeply inside.” Lama Yeshe
REGISTRATION REQUIRED (please:)
Getting what we want, like delicious chocolate, a great job or a new partner, is our main method for achieving happiness, and we certainly work hard at it! But what if we lose it? Or what if we can’t find it? What then?
Behind the world of attachment lies the origin of all our problems, according to Buddha’s teachings. We therefore need to understand exactly what it is or as Lama Zopa Rinpoche puts it, it will seem that we have to give up happiness when we heard that we have to give up attachment.
Venerable Robina Courtin will teach from Lama Yeshe’s book When the Chocolate Runs out, to explain to us what attachment is, how it promises us happiness and only delivers suffering in the long run and the real happiness we can access when we give it up.
Open door, open heart – drop in anytime in person or via Zoom. Donations are always optional.
https://tnlsf.org/event/when-the-chocolate-runs-out/2025-05-16/
Friday May 16, 2025, 7:00PM – 8:30PM
Saturday May 17, 2025, and Sunday May 18, 2025
Morning Session: 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Lunch: 12:00 to 1:30 PM
Afternoon Session: 1:30 to 3:30 - Evening Express Meditation: Purification (Zoom Only)Link visible for attendees
End the day with a purification practice, the Four Opponent Powers.
To attend this event and for more information, go to Thubten Norbu Ling Homepage at TNLSF.org or access the full schedule of daily meditations, teachings, courses and practices here: Thubten Norbu Ling Event Calendar
Zoom access links are provided on the Thubten Norbu Ling website event pages. Please note that they are not provided on Meetup. RSVPs are not required. Drop in anytime.
